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Routine and the real world
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:date: 2011-12-19T17:09:21
:category: computer
:tags: culture, faith

Our former president, Mr. Václav Havel, died yesterday.

A `congregation where we are members`_ organized yesterday a benefit
concert for the relief of `the hunger in the Horn of Africa`_. Our
pastor, being American, immediately asked me and two other Czech members
of the congregation before the concert, whether he shouldn’t say
something about Mr. Havel. We somehow stood there helpless and in the
end we didn’t do anything special (as far as I know). Then we Czechs
were kind of ashamed how we don’t have a proper procedure for case of
death of beloved politician. It happened so rarely in this land ;).

I was thinking whole day how to continue in this post. I was thinking a
lot about how everybody ignores in my opinion the most relevant message
of Mr. Havel for us, which is the life in truth (and thinking about some
comparison with the over-celebrated life of virtual hero Steve Jobbs),
how our virtual life we all live is so different from `the Lebenswelt`_.
However, I was struggling to find a proper formulation and never written
anything.

Then I looked at CNN_ page for some inspiration and found this:

.. image:: {filename}/images/cnn.png
    :scale: 66%
    :align: center
    :target: {filename}/images/cnn.png
    :alt: CNN front page informing about the death of Mr. Havel

I think the idea of report about Mr. Havel’s being completely encircled
by the reports of the death of Kim Jong Il would fit well into some of
his best dramas.

Thank you Mr. Havel.

.. _`congregation where we are members`:
    http://www.praguefellowship.cz/
.. _`the hunger in the Horn of Africa`:
    http://30hourfamine.org/why-raise-funds/choose-where-your-goes/?cons_id=0&ts=1386574120&signature=7ae959a53d5d5e3b36153182b598fd7e#lightbox-somalia
.. _`the Lebenswelt`:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Pato%C4%8Dka
.. _CNN: http://www.cnn.com