"Over and against this passionate order, which is the work of people created 'in God's image,' there constantly recurs its evil caricature and misshapen protagonist, 'the bastard son of Being,' the offspring of indifference to the meaning of Being and vindictive fear of its mystery: the chilling work of man as 'the image of the devil': the order of homogenization by violence, perfectly organized impotence and centrally directed desolation and boredom, in which man is conceived as a cybernetic unit without free will, without the power to reason for himself, without a unique life of his own, and where that monstrous idea, order, is a euphemism for the graveyard. (I refer you to Fromm's excellent analysis of fascism.)
Thus against 'the order of life,' sustained by a longing for meaning and an experience of the mystery of Being, there stands this 'order of death,' a monument to non-sense, an executioner of mystery, a materialization of nothingness."
Vaclav Havel
Letters to Olga
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