If you have ever sat through a meeting where someone used the word "synergy," "leveraging deliverables," or "circle back" without anyone blinking, you have lived inside the world of Václav Havel.
We laugh at corporate buzzwords, but Havel shows they are dangerous. When leaders invent a new vocabulary (Ptydepe), they aren't trying to clarify; they are trying to gatekeep. If you don't speak the secret language of the month, you cannot question authority. You are automatically stupid. The Memorandum Vaclav Havel
The system doesn't fix itself. It just rebrands. If you have ever sat through a meeting