Havel denounces ‘atheist civilisation’: Václav Havel, the Czech playwright and politician, has attacked the emptiness and ‘atheism’ of consumer society
Andrew Brown for The GuardianVáclav Havel made a perfectly extraordinary speech yesterday, condemning ours as "the first atheist civilisation", which "has lost its connection with the infinite and with eternity".
Havel is not often thought of as a defender of religion, and the Czech republic is by some measures the most completely dechristianised part of Europe. But he means by atheism the kind of insatiable proud greed which mashes both interior and exterior landscapes into something as homogenous as mechanically recovered chicken. It is a vision of the consumer society as hell:
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