[WOSG]

I favor "antipolitical politics," that is, politics not as the technology of power and manipulation, of cybernetic rule over humans or as the art of the utilitarian but politics as one of the ways of seeking and achieving meaningful lives, of protecting them and serving them. I favor politics as practical morality, as service to the truth, as essentially human and humanly measured care for our fellow humans. It is, I presume, an approach which, in this world, is extremely impractical and difficult to apply in daily life. Still, I know no better alternative. --Vaclav Havel Open Letters "Politics and Conscience"

Wonderful sentiment... don't know if it is realistic, but it is a great sentiment.

[cornelis]

Havel isn't sentimental. He will be must reading for an ever-increasing bureaucratic U.S.A. You know about him?