Status Updates From The Power of the Powerless

Power structures changed from underneath, totalitarian systems have two options to dealing with uprisings stemming from ground swell public opinion/dissent: adaptation or repression.

Most interesting thing about responsibility is that we carry it everywhere

Law and justice system used as a facade for the power structure. To outside observer looks like a fairly just system but the details are hidden, small law changes made can be ruthlessly enforced.

Don’t care about left right, all labels irrelevant. Just want to live in truth

Dissident movements weaken foundations of post totalitarianism, not easy to see where and when they’ll break but small acts can shift social consciousness

Greengrocer stops putting sign up, no longer lives the lie. Is dangerous not because he has power but because he has pulled back the curtain and shown the truth. No terms on which the system (lie) can coexist with the truth, anyone who steps out of line “denies it in principle and threatens its entirety”

Greengrocer “workers of the world unite” why did he put the poster up? “I am afraid and therefore unquestioningly obedient”

Czech, Russian normalisation. Brexit reference in the intro