Author: Jan Tománek

Jan Tománek (1978) is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. In addition to film and art work, he also wrote for game and film magazines in his youth and founded the computer magazine Level, in which he served as editor-in-chief. He is known as the director and screenwriter of the popularly successful animated films Kozí příbě, for which he won a number of international film awards and was nominated for the Czech Lion. In 2018, he published his first novel The Butterfly Scream – a conspiracy thriller from the Czech environment. The second book - Chandelier for the Pope - a raw and harsh story from the hell of the normalization camps, was published in the fall of 2019 and was followed by the dystopian novel Ark of Books in late 2021. In 2022, he prepared a book of collected blogs of several authors, Chronicle of the Covid Era. He lives with his wife on the outskirts of Prague and is the father of two children. In addition to writing books, he is involved in the civic initiative Zdravé forum. He lives with his wife on the outskirts of Prague and is the father of two children.

Interview for VOX.tv

"Due to excessive aid to Ukraine, the Czech people are suffering." The latest interview for VOX.tv - about becoming a writer "on the other side of the barricade", about Ukraine, covid, Healthy Forum and my latest book War with Trees. Like26

What if II…

When I wrote my sci-fi review "What if..." some time ago, I was missing the last piece in the mosaic for everything to fit together perfectly. Such a small detail that you know that when it falls into place, everything will only start to make perfectly crazy sense. I still find myself…

Not related!

People don't want to hear it, they don't want to read it - they want to finally have peace from "this covid" - but sticking your head in the sand will not solve the problem. On the contrary! Because what is happening around us is absolutely crazy and unprecedented. For the whole of last year, about 10% were born in our country...

It is not "just" a point to Croatia

Written for Echo 24 - June 21, 2021 Man is a strange creature - the more banal decisions he makes in life, the more time he devotes to them. I know, I was one myself until recently. He spends long minutes deciding which of dozens of pizzas to order in a restaurant, choosing hours and going through all the parameters...

How are people handling the price hike and not on the streets yet?

Energy and mortgages are almost three times more expensive, some foods are twice as expensive, the prices of services, medicines and actually everything naturally start to rise in an inflationary spiral thanks to energy. What is happening is completely unprecedented. And I've been asking myself and the people around me for almost a year now, how is it possible that after...

Paradoxically, I see hope in evil

This reflection is a free continuation and a kind of addition to the older text "I see hope paradoxically in stupidity". In addition to stupidity, incompetence and sticking one's head in the sand, the current situation is caused by something else, and I think that something is the incredible moral and spiritual emptiness of people. Faith in something higher was replaced by the hunt...

Do you like war? Quiet changes to the Constitution and army laws

I wrote this text in January 2023 and now I am gradually adding more information - as time goes on. Again, from conspiracy to reality in a few months... Please be careful - it will also happen to your children! I will completely forget the presidential election games, who will drag us into war and who will do what...

Who to vote for? Make sure to “choose”…

Short answer: I don't want to legitimize ANY evil and play that some evil is lesser and I should choose that - NO! For the first time since the revolution, I can't go to vote with a clear conscience and I'm simply not going to play this doll game anymore... And now the longer one reflection: What do you…

My Five Day Fast - No Science

Yes, I often unfortunately eat unhealthy… (the photo is from the summer in Austria, not after the fast…) When I wrote the first post on Facebook that I decided to start a five-day fast (only water and tea), I had no idea , what kind of interest it will eventually spark. So I'll try again...

Two completely flagrant lies of Minister Rakušana

Great interview with Minister Rakušanem, what IS and what is NOT disinformation. Using an example here, he shows what disinformation IS and what he would therefore prosecute. It's a shame that TWO of his TWO examples are completely obvious and demonstrable lies - that is, as he himself likes to say - misinformation. First…

"B" not working? No problem - straight back to "A"!

I thought (quite naively) that everyone who lives in this country remembers how Babiš's government behaved and what craziness, restrictions on freedoms and trades it showed during covid. That's why many saw hope (very false) in the government of Petr Fiala and they jumped at them completely uncovered. Come on... Today...

Why do so many people still believe covid lies?

Milgram's experiment - about listening and blind trust in authorities, when one's own responsibility is easily hidden behind "I was ordered to"... "I had to"... or "I blindly trust". The Stanford Prison Experiment - where everyone is happy to play the role of a warden and is able to torture and restrain other people if given the…