There's just one problem. It also has the most subversively horrifying subtext by a Western world leader who is not Trump that I've read in a very long time. Carney's (or his speechwriter's) choice of Havel’s “lie” metaphor is rhetorically dangerous: it blurs the difference
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There's just one problem. It also has the most subversively horrifying subtext by a Western world leader who is not Trump that I've read in a very long time. Carney's (or his speechwriter's) choice of Havel’s “lie” metaphor is rhetorically dangerous: it blurs the difference between democratic hypocrisy and totalitarian coercion, and it invites the interpretation that liberal order itself has been a quasi-ideological fraud, which for all its many flaws, it has not been.
For example, Canada was not coerced into the LRBIO in the way Havel's shopkeepers were coerced into communist conformity. It's a problematic parallel. And there are more of them.
I'm still thinking about this. It's a powerful speech but has some dangerous undercurrents... a lot depends on what is meant...
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