Vaclav Havel

Vaclav Havel and Kim Jong II died nearly 10 days ago. Czech Republic and North Korea are still crying...

I remember, years ago, being completely moved by this:
(its a small fragment of V. Havel's "New Years Address to the Nation" speech)

"The worst thing is that we live in a contaminated moral environment. We fell morally ill because we became used to saying something different from what we thought. We learned not to believe in anything, to ignore one another, to care only about ourselves. Concepts such as love, friendship, compassion, humility or forgiveness lost their depth and dimension, and for many of us they represented only psychological peculiarities, or they resembled gone-astray greetings from ancient times, a little ridiculous in the era of computers and spaceships. "

He was saying this in 1990.

R.I.P.

Cristinnne.