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You have to take the imperative that you’re responsible for the whole world [Vaclav Havel] I recently watched a documentary on the Czech struggle to overthrow oppressive rule. After forty years, a critical mass managed to topple a mighty regime.

In the movie “One flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest“ the character known as “Big Nurse” behaves in a rigid, rule oriented manner. She is a “cold, precise woman with calculated gestures and a calm, mechanical manner” who treats her patients as if they are on a level playing field with children.