The Power of the Powerless (Vintage Classics)

by Václav Havel

Freedom is not doing the things that you are inclined to do. It is reflecting upon what you ought to do, as your unrepeatable self, and just occasionally taking a risk and doing that thing.

The ‘pre-political’ began with salvaging unmediated experiences from the wreck of mediated ones. ‘Living in truth’ ennobled the civic in a country where private and public were confused by television.