Academy of Ideas: The Parallel Society vs Totalitarianism | How to Create a Free World

Academy of Ideas: The Parallel Society vs Totalitarianism | How to Create a Free World

Academy of Ideas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJr7awWGWAo&ab_channel=AcademyofIdeas

https://academyofideas.com/2022/02/parallel-society-vs-totalitarianism-how-to-create-a-free-world/

The basis for the parallel society was born in the mind of Ivan Jirous, a Czech poet and the artistic director of the rock band the Plastic People of the Universe. After members of this band were arrested in 19** for refusing to toe the government line, Jirous called on the community of Czech artists to create music labels, publishing houses, concert halls, art expositions, and other such infrastructure, that existed independently of mainstream society and outside the grasp of the communist State. Jirous hypothesized that if enough infrastructure were created an “independent society” would spontaneously form and function as a pocket of creative freedom in a highly oppressed society. Jirous defined the independent society as “a [society] not dependent on official channels of communications, or on the hierarchy of values of the establishment” and as he further explained.