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Havel the Dissident: A Legacy Worth Claiming (crooksandliars)
_Former President Havel addresses a European cultural congress on the
economics of culture
_
On a warm evening in 1991, a colleague and I found an out-of-the-way café in
the old part of Prague. Two men with blank expressions stood outside. The
interior was dim and close, with room for only eight or nine tables. The place
was almost empty. Just a sleepy waitress, a bartender polishing glasses, and a
single patron who sat alone drinking wine and chain-smoking cigarettes.
The President of Czechoslovakia wasn’t reviewing official papers. He was
reading a book, a startlingly un-Presidential act to our American eyes. My
companion, a neoconservative State Department official, already admired him
for defying and defeating a Communist state. He’d impressed me by bringing a
writer’s sensibility and an affinity for true underground culture to his role
as head of state.
Václav Havel even tried to appoint Frank Zappa as his Minister of Culture.
“We’re not rock musicians,” Zappa told a reporter back in the sixties. “We’re
electronic social workers.” The State Department wouldn’t let Zappa assume the
post, but Havel had made his point to the Czech public by offering this
apparatchik’s position to the composer of songs …
Roxy Music – Manifesto
