Monika Zgustova considers that thinkers are in danger

The Czech writer and translator Monika Zgustova writes on the dangerous risks being taken by thinkers and intellectuals in Russia and in many other countries. "Thinking has always led to a questioning of the world's order. The world, however, is directed by those in power and whoever thinks puts this power into question. Thinking is thus a dangerous activity. ... What is happening in Russia is not an isolated situation, limited to that country. Russia is foreshadowing a growing tendency among those in power to decide upon the world's order. The tendency is to stifle by different means those who query the given order. ... Octavio Paz had predicted that in a few decades writers and thinkers would have to take refuge in secluded monasteries in order to conserve the tradition of knowledge far away from the eyes of the hostile world, just as the monks did in Ireland during the 7th century."

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