“You can't spend your whole life criticizing something and then, when you have the chance to do it better, refuse to go near it.”
― Václav Havel
*That's why Havel gave up writing funny absurdist plays and became the president of his country.
*I think he's quite right in that grim assessment of moral duty, which is kinda why I like to spend small pieces of my whole life on the ol' blog here, mildly and briefly criticizing a bunch of very widely different things. If you'd like the structures of wealth and power to pretty much leave you alone, then the butterfly dilettante life has got a lot to recommend it.
*The possible downside: nothing much gets a big chance to do a whole lot better. But, if you don't fancy your own chops at big organization and big administration, maybe everybody's better off if you leave those moral duties to the pros. You're not gonna govern through critique.
