Editing Normalization (Czechoslovakia) (section)

==Neonormalization==
Czech philosophers [[Václav Bělohradský]] and [[Stanislav Komárek]] use the term ‘neonormalization’ (''neonormalizace'') for a stage of Czech society in the post-communist period, which is compared with the torpidity and hypocrisy of the 1970s and 1980s.<!-- Shouldn't this be it's own article? -->

Bělohradský in his book ''Společnost nevolnosti'' (Slon, 2007) calls ‘neonormalization’ the direction since 1992 that all alternative opinions are crowded out, a culture shifts into the trash of entertainers, next the deepening of democracy is blocked, the public space is infested with right-wing ideology and Czech Republic participated in all sorts of nefarious wars.

Komárek, a philosopher and biologist, in many his articles since 2006<ref>Stanislav Komárek: "Neonormalizace", In: Vesmír 85, No. 9, 2006, p. 565.</ref> popularizes his opinion that in certain stages of society development, the administrative and formalistic aspect (or the ‘power of mediocres’) outweighs a common sense, creativity and utility.<ref>[http://hn.ihned.cz/c1-40823180-prezimovani-aneb-jak-prezit-temnoty Stanislav Komárek: Přezimování aneb Jak přežít temnoty], Hospodářské noviny, 2 March 2010</ref> Pressure for [[conformity]] intensely rises and everyone is obliged to "sell his soul" to keep up in social structures.<ref name=mihalco>Zdeněk Mihalco: [http://aktualne.centrum.cz/domaci/spolecnost/clanek.phtml?id=666087 Žijeme opět v normalizaci, byť se Seychelami a mangem], an interview with Stanislav Komárek, Aktuálně.cz, 24 April 2010</ref> This neonormalistic period in the Czech Republic began ‘after 20 years of freedom’, it means about in 2010 year, in Komárek's view.<ref name=mihalco />

This term is discussed and used by many other authors.<ref>e. g. Martin Škabraha: [http://www.blisty.cz/2010/7/27/art53648.html (Neo)normalizace], Britské listy, 27 July 2010</ref>