RIP Czechoslovakian artist and leader Vaclav Havel.

http://www.npr.org/2011/12/18/143915405/vaclav-havel-leader-of-the-velvet-revolution-dies

I thought this sentence from the NPR eulogy of Havel particularly interesting:
"He became more and more impatient with a populace which would not assert itself and tended toward inertia and conformity"

That is an apt description for a lot of the SoCal poetry community.