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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What an important speech for countries of the world being bullied by the US. Here is an excerpt:

"In 1978, the Czech dissident Václav Havel, later president, wrote an essay called “The Power of the Powerless,” and in it he asked a simple question: how did the communist system sustain itself?

And his answer began with a greengrocer.

Every morning, the shopkeeper places a sign in his window: “Workers of the world unite.” He doesn’t believe in it. No one does. But he places the sign anyway to avoid trouble, to signal compliance, to get along. And because every shopkeeper on every street does the same, the system persists — not through violence alone, but through the participation of ordinary people in rituals they privately know to be false.

Havel called this living within a lie. The system’s power comes not from its truth, but from everyone’s willingness to perform as if it were true. And its fragility comes from the same source. When even one person stops performing, when the greengrocer removes his sign, the illusion begins to crack.

Friends, it is time for companies and countries to take their signs down."[/quote]

What an idiot capitalist banker.

He accidentally said that tyranny triumphed because the workers of the world didn't believe enough in their own power. [/quote]

Yes, I am the PP who also thought the speech was dreadful although you expressed it better than me. I agree with the fact that the world needs to speak out against Trump, I think it's terrible Carney relied on an anti-worker story.  [/quote]

It’s shocking and sad how ignorant you posters seem to be about Havel and his thinking and his place in history.

Educate yourselves: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_the_Powerless[/quote]

Seriously the ignorance knows no bounds. This was such an excellent speech and as a Canadian I’m so so proud of our leader! Now all the other countries need to take notice and follow the same steps. [/quote]

I thought this speech was so good that I was sure it would be all anyone would be talking about today, and I'm completely mystified and kind of depressed that it isn't. You practically have to search for coverage of it.[/quote]

If it’s any consolation to you, I watched extensive coverage of Davos and many of the very bright commentators- historians, economists, political scientists, retired military - were saying how Carney’s speech would go down in history as the marking of the new world order and how it was so much the polar opposite of the shit show that Trump put on today.

Trump destroyed a world order of 80 years, and as if in anticipation of that coming, Carney laid out the framework for the middle powers to make a new world without reliance on a once great superpower which committed international suicide this week.

I’ve always secretly envied Canada - as a kid it was because of Wayne Gretzky (barf he’s MAGA now) and Anne of Green Gables, and now because you have such an intelligent reasonable leader while we suffer under the dumb demented dictator. If it comes to blows, I hope I can defect and join your struggle.[/quote]

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