Vaclav Havel described the old, bygone Warsaw Pact, where the acceptance and proliferation of lies became a way of life. As Havel sees it, lies need not be accepted as truth to have a toxic effect:
Individuals need not believe all these mystifications, but they must behave as though they did, or they must at least tolerate them in silence…
Vaclav Havel described the old, bygone Warsaw Pact, where the acceptance and proliferation of lies became a way of life. As Havel sees it, lies need not be accepted as truth to have a toxic effect:
Individuals need not believe all these mystifications, but they must behave as though they did, or they must at least tolerate them in silence, or get along well with those who work with them. For this reason, however, they must live within a lie. They need not accept the lie. It is enough for them to have accepted their life with it and in it. For by this very fact, individuals confirm the system, fulfil the system, make the system, are the system.
Vaclav Havel described the old, bygone Warsaw Pact, where the acceptance and proliferation of lies became a way of life. As Havel sees it, lies need not be accepted as truth to have a toxic effect:
Individuals need not believe all these mystifications, but they must behave as though they did, or they must at least tolerate them in silence, or get along well with those who work with them. For this reason, however, they must live within a lie. They need not accept the lie. It is enough for them to have accepted their life with it and in it. For by this very fact, individuals confirm the system, fulfil the system, make the system, are the system.