Dr. Todd Rose

The Velvet Revolution is famous because it's the only time a people have overthrown

a communist regime without a single person dying, without a single shot being fired, okay?

And people are like, how does that happen?

It's an anomaly.

The best part about it is who led it, and this is how you'll get to the secret of it, is a person named Václav Havel, okay?

And I'm going to say right now, for everyone listening or watching, if you go online, you can download for free.

He wrote a manifesto about this called The Power of the Powerless,

that is, will chill you to the bones.

It will sound like he's writing about our time today, but he writes about how he discovered the real problem in their society was this collective illusion.

So he's had no military experience.

He wasn't a politician.

He was a poet and a playwright.

And he was anti-communist, but he decides he writes this play called The Garden Party.

And it was a satire about communism.

It was so subtle that the censors didn't even know they were being made fun of.

Okay, so he puts it on.

It becomes a runaway hit.

It's like the Hamilton of the time there.

It's sold out every night.

He attends every single play and he doesn't watch the play.