"And then people think 'oh my god that means we're about to head back into a world of autocracy and fascism'. No! It should mean we're about to head to a world of different kinds of democracy."
#DavidRunciman, 2025
https://www.ppfideas.com/episodes/fixing-democracy%3A-citizens%E2%80%99-assemblies
(2/2)
"... when people talk about 'democracy', they mean the democracy that we've had for the past 100 years and they think that that is the absolutely universal default. And it is ... historically contingent, it's probably moved quite a long way through it's life cycle - is my guess - and it's coming to the end of its life."
#DavidRunciman, 2025
https://www.ppfideas.com/episodes/fixing-democracy%3A-citizens%E2%80%99-assemblies
(1/2)
"And then people think 'oh my god that means we're about to head back into a world of autocracy and fascism'. No! It should mean we're about to head to a world of different kinds of democracy."
#DavidRunciman, 2025
https://www.ppfideas.com/episodes/fixing-democracy%3A-citizens%E2%80%99-assemblies
(2/2)
"... my hypothesis is that as Citizens’ Assemblies become more widely known, as we have more examples where people know that, OK, this is worth my time because I know the government is going to do something, that will also have an impact on response rates. We're still really early in the wider historical sense of this democratic innovation."
#ClaudiaChwalisz, CEO, Democracy Next, 2025
https://www.ppfideas.com/episodes/fixing-democracy%3A-citizens%E2%80%99-assemblies
#podcasts #PastPresentFuture #FixingDemocracy #CitizensAssemblies
"... when people talk about 'democracy', they mean the democracy that we've had for the past 100 years and they think that that is the absolutely universal default. And it is ... historically contingent, it's probably moved quite a long way through it's life cycle - is my guess - and it's coming to the end of its life."
#DavidRunciman, 2025
https://www.ppfideas.com/episodes/fixing-democracy%3A-citizens%E2%80%99-assemblies
(1/2)
All countries that claim to practice 'compulsory voting', don't. Because they all offer a 'no confidence' option. Which is, in effect, not voting.
It's a nonsense, and a distraction from meaningful attempts at democratic reform
https://nzpod.co.nz/podcast/past-present-future/fixing-democracy-compulsory-voting
(1/2)
#podcasts #DavidRunciman #PastPresentFuture #democracy #elections #CompulsoryVoting
"But, we are being reminded, it happens in other places and it's happened very, very recently. Since the publication of The Handmaid's Tale, you can tell similar stories about other places; Afghanistan is another.
#DavidRunciman, August, 2024
https://www.ppfideas.com/episodes
(2/?)
"There is in Gillead a wall ... where traitors are hung after execution ... But these places are guarded by ... potentially trigger-happy young men, with guns, but who look to the women like they should be in school.
This is, Checkpoint Charlie, this is the Berlin Wall. These things were policed by young men who looked like maybe they should Stoll be in school."
#DavidRunciman, August, 2024
https://www.ppfideas.com/episodes
Reminds me of the checkpoints in the walls around Occupied Palestine.
(3/3)
"It might in the US seem impossible that a society based on 'American freedoms' could turn into this kind of repressive theocracy overnight."
#DavidRunciman, August, 2024
https://www.ppfideas.com/episodes
A year later ...
(1/?)
"But, we are being reminded, it happens in other places and it's happened very, very recently. Since the publication of The Handmaid's Tale, you can tell similar stories about other places; Afghanistan is another.
#DavidRunciman, August, 2024
https://www.ppfideas.com/episodes
(2/?)
"It might in the US seem impossible that a society based on 'American freedoms' could turn into this kind of repressive theocracy overnight."
#DavidRunciman, August, 2024
https://www.ppfideas.com/episodes
A year later ...
(1/?)
I've never thought deeply about exactly what people might mean when they talk about "the polycrisis". So I'm glad I got the chance, thanks to David Runciman doing an episode about it for his History of Bad Ideas series;
https://www.ppfideas.com/episodes/the-history-of-bad-ideas%3A-polycrisis
(1/2)
#podcast#PastPresentFuture#HistoryOfBadIdeas#DavidRunciman#polycrisis
"What If… The French Revolution Had Happened in China?"
"David talks to world historian Ayse Zarakol about how the East might well have risen to global dominance before the West. What if the key revolutions of the modern world – political and industrial – had happened in Asia first?"
https://www.ppfideas.com/episodes
(1/2)
#podcasts#PastPresentFuture#DavidRunciman#AyseZarakol#FrenchRevolution#China
