![]() Milan Kundera is certainly an intellectual whose “ideas had the force of a bomb exploding” for the communist regime in Czechoslovakia, and even beyond. Ideas spread like wildfire and have the capacity to show the oppressed people how abject an ideology can be, thus making the empire which rests upon it totter. It even powerfully resonates in the mind when it concerns the dissident intellectual, morally fighting against the authoritarian or totalitarian regime, a fight which promises only disgrace or forced exile, at best. This sentence inevitably evokes the role of the intellectual, writer, poet, painter, scientist, in contemporary societies. ![]() “Some ideas have the force of a bomb exploding”. ![]()
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