Václav Cílek: Václav Havel on Potato-Picking Brigade Work, or A Study of Disconnected Worlds
- Where: Václav Havel Library, Ostrovní 13, Prague 110 00
- When: January 19, 2017, 19:00 – 21:00
Most commentators were surprised by Donald Trump’s victory. A number of analysts admitted that a gap had opened up some time back between the views of what Karel Čapek called “the ordinary people” and journalists. The situation was later repeated with the “surprising” victories of Francois Fillon and in the France.
The debate aims to encourage a common reflection on what has divided the regular world from the media world, and how public intellectuals can address the poorer half of the nation, who don’t live in cities, and why they ought to do so.