Dluhy českých vzdělanců [What the Czech intellectuals have failed to do]

This is a lecture which Jan Čulík gave during the Fourth Schwarzenberg meeting of Czech intellectuals, which took place in the Teplá monastery in Western Bohemia in October 1995. In the lecture, he criticises the inactivity of Czech intellectuals in the first years after the fall of communism and the fact that they tolerated nonsense and fake news, being disseminated by the new commercial media which had totally overwhelmed Czech public discourse. He also criticises what he sees as serious flaws of the Czech educational system. - The lecture provoked a passionate, often angry response from the leading Czech intellectuals who were present. Some of those present, however, agreed with Čulík's argumentation. The debate, provoked by Jan Čulík's lecture, was then published in Listy 1/1996 and the scan is enclosed here. Both the lecture and the debate are also available online, here: https://blisty.cz/art/109403-situace-je-porad-stejna-ne-li-horsi-dluhy-ceskych-vzdelancu-ve-zmatku-dnesni-ceske-spolecnosti.html