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"The modern era has been dominated by the culminating belief, that the world ... is a wholly knowable system governed by finite number of universal laws that man can grasp and rationally direct ... objectively describing, explaining, and controlling everything."
mk, I am trying to understand how you arrived at that as the fundamental "issue that [informs the issue that] Havel was raising". (Please explain.) There are 2 distinct concerns here: top-down systems of societal order that govern based on heuristic reasoning and statistical modeling, and, (ultimately) cosmic points of view. Consider: a bottom-up system can be based on an absolutist bias that is applied locally.