Nice speech, but twisting Havel into a comment about international governance, at Davos of all places—while enthusiastically joining the global internet crackdown—is quite cheeky.

Havel’s essay is clearly about human-scale, bottom-up resistance against totalitarianism, not about creating new oppressive systems to defeat the old ones. The ending seems to reject traditional forms of “governance” entirely.

(For what it’s worth, I agree with some of Carney’s points—the old order was always a lie, and it is indeed dead.)