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"Man must in some way come to his senses.
He must extricate himself from this terrible involvement in both the
obvious and the hidden mechanisms of totality, from consumption to repression,
from advertising to manipulation through television. He must rebel against his role as a helpless cog in the
gigantic and enormous machinery hurtling God knows where. He must discover again, within himself, a deeper sense of
responsibility toward the world, which means responsibility toward something
higher than himself."
- Vaclav Havel, in Disturbing
the Peace
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I learned about Czech language, history, and culture while
I served as an intelligence analyst and linguist in the military.
I was privileged to be able to observe the Velvet Revolution
personally and make some close friends during my travels there.
My Czech class at the Defense
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