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Social media was supposed to place us in a veritable town square, where we could engage one another with challenging ideas and debates.
It talks about the candidates, written very well, but no information, no follow-up, no websites for the campaigns, no information about when the debates are, where the campaign offices are.
In New York this autumn, it will be present when the great debates about the future of the Middle East take place.
In the world of the Middle East at the moment, the debates are, as you know, shrill.
And we suspect that this may help to explain why older people are better than younger people at solving hotly charged emotional conflicts and debates.
This explains most contemporary political debates.
People have been debating the causes of happiness for a really long time, in fact for thousands of years, but it seems like many of those debates remain unresolved.
Did anybody notice that in two of the three debates, Obama wore a blue tie and Romney wore a red tie?
I loved these people, and I admired their freedom, but I watched as the world outside of our utopian bubble exploded into these raging debates where pundits started likening our love to bestiality on national television.
There are those today that dispute that, and lots of debates about how the mind works, but for me it's simple: Mental images, for most of us, are central in inventive and creative thinking.
So there have been these long debates over the centuries, in that case, actually, we can say over the millennia, about religion.
What I want to persuade you of today is of a very simple claim, which is that these debates are in a certain sense preposterous, because there is no such thing as religion about which to make these claims.
I'm not talking about the kind of colorful debates that I think are healthy for our democracy.
The more interesting question is whether capitalism will be succeeded by something resembling a Matrix dystopia or something much closer to a Star Trek-like society, where machines serve the humans and the humans expend their energies exploring the universe and indulging in long debates about the meaning of life in some ancient, Athenian-like, high tech agora.
But also we've started to have debates about how the role of the private sector should move away from just being a profit motive and really be more engaged in the delivery of social programs.
I think those are the debates we should have, because it's not clear at all what model we should be adopting, and I think there needs to be much more discourse and much more humility about what we know and what we don't know.
It was street theater, open-air debates, fasting and feasting and toasting, parades and bonfires.
Imagine if we had, across the country right now, in local places but nationwide, a concerted effort to revive a face-to-face set of ways to engage and electioneer: outdoor shows in which candidates and their causes are mocked and praised in broad satirical style; soapbox speeches by citizens; public debates held inside pubs; streets filled with political art and handmade posters and murals; battle of the band concerts in which competing performers rep their candidates.
In fact, in the US the very first major debates about privacy were in response to technologies that were relatively new at the time.
And I was struck when I watched the debates before the election, I was struck that certainly Trump did not even attempt to frighten people by saying the robots will take your jobs.
Or to put it another way, I would love to offer you my experience-backed, evidence-tested guide to talking to your cousin about politics at your next family dinner; reorganizing the way in which your team debates new proposals; thinking about how we change our public conversation.
Democracy, in all its trappings, free elections, town halls, endless debates about the proper role of government.
We heard about it during the Brexit debates and most recently during the French elections.
Sethembile Msezane: On April 9, 2015, the Cecil John Rhodes statue was scheduled to be removed after a month of debates for and against its removal by various stakeholders.
We need to break the silence around the condition of our planet; move beyond manufactured debates about climate science; share solutions; speak truth with a broken-open heart; teach that to address climate change, we must make gender equity a reality.
And these are complicated debates and they're going to happen in real time.
One of the debates going on at the National Academies today is you have the power to put a gene drive into mosquitoes so that you will kill all the malaria-carrying mosquitoes.
If our hypotheses are borne out, it's our hope that results from this work will inform debates about social services that have the potential to effect millions of families with young children.
I didn't do amazing research and studies and take information and present it to people; I didn't have deep, intellectual, scientific debates with people.
But can this procedure of aggregating the results of debates in small groups also help us decide on social and political issues that are critical for our future?
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