Tyrrany Sets Up Its Own Echo Chamber

I think it was Utz who first convinced me that history is always our guide for the future, and always full of capricious surprises. The future itself is a dead land because it does not yet exist. When a Czech writer wishes to comment on the plight of his country, one way open to him is to use the fifteenth-century Hussite Rebellion as a metaphor. I found in Prague Museum this text describing the Hussites' defeat of the German Knights: ''At midnight, all of a sudden, frightened shouting was heard in the very centre of the large forces of Edom who had put up their tents along three miles near the town of Zatec in Bohemia, in the distance of ten miles from Cheb. And all of them fled from the sword, driven out by the voice of falling leaves only, and not pursued by any man". As I scribbled this in my notebook, I seemed to hear again Utz's nasal whisper: "They listen, listen, listen to everything but . . . they hear nothing" . He had, as usual, been right. Tyranny sets up its own echo-chamber, a void where confused signals buzz about at random, where a murmur or innuendo causes panic. So, in the end, the machinery of repression is more likely to vanish, not with war or revolution, but with a puff, or the voice of falling leaves.

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 Utz
Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book:  Chatwin, Bruce (1988), Utz, Retrieved on 2015-05-31
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