It is not about energy security, as you might guess after Brazilian black out and new Ukrainian negotiations on gas delivery. This is supposed to be about how we, Czechs in particular, and Central Europeans in general, feel twenty years after what one might call velvet revolution and other change of regime.

And the feeling is quite bleak. According to Median survey, 88 percent of Czechs is not satisfied with political situation in Czech Republic. They feel widespread corruption, lack of leadership, lobbying and hidden deals, people are not willing to participate in civic activities because they consider them as nonsense in society, where politicians accused of corrupt practice do not resign, where leaders do not lead but lie and where unreformed communists are part of power game in parliament.

One of my colleagues even suggested that situation resemble the beginning of 1970s, so called normalisation, where Czech society had closed itself inward. People were just struggling to surivive working days to go to their weekend houses with apathy towards anything political and blind towards any civic activity.

All the stuff might be considered even worse due to recent economic crisis which goes with political one. Just ask anybody in Czech Republic about politics and economy and you hear only complaints. It might be much more the same in Slovakia or Poland, but it seems to me that people there are much more active, during harsh years of political and economical transformation they learned much more to take their own destiny in their hands - and, for example, travel to find a work abroad. Czechs are maybe too lazy to do that, they prefer to sit down with guys in local beer pubs and talk.

It might look too pessimistic, but seeing all the symptoms of political and economic crisis with Russians approaching to tight us up in economical spheres, with NATO role diminishing and insider EU quarels one must ask: where have we been going all these twenty years? And where our children will go?

So far, darkness of postcommunism is my answer, not liberal democracy with clear rules about which we had been dreaming while freezing at demonstrations twenty years ago.