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Well, the transition to democracy in South Africa in 1994 was literally a dream come true for many of us.

It's good news if you care about democracy.

But everyone that I knew had an interest in the primacy of the written word in terms of nurturing a democracy, nurturing an enlightened life.

We were training women's rights, human rights, democracy, rule of law.

Although Germany is an advanced democracy, citizens are limited in their constitutional rights in its government district.

Our democracy depends on an informed citizenry, so it is our duty to know how it works and what authority each branch of government has over its citizens.

What about the links connecting Twitter, Google and protesters fighting for democracy?

And so it should be not fearful, it should be inspiring to the same governments that fought for civil rights, free speech and democracy in the great wars of the last century, that today, for the first time in human history, we have a technical opportunity to make billions of people safer around the world that we've never had before in human history.

In the words of Emily Dickinson, "'Hope' is the thing with feathers - That perches in the soul - "And sings the tune without the words - And never stops - at all -" Democracy.

We see democracy not as the most fragile of flowers that it really is, but we see it as part of our society's furniture.

We mistakenly believe that capitalism begets inevitably democracy.

Indeed, democracy is receding in our neck of the woods, here in Europe.

At that moment, I felt that there could be no greater vindication of Lee Kuan Yew, or the Chinese Communist Party, indeed of some recalcitrant friends of mine who kept telling me that democracy would be banned if it ever threatened to change anything.

Tonight, here, I want to present to you an economic case for an authentic democracy.

And without democracy, our societies will be nastier, our future bleak and our great, new technologies wasted.

Am I right in believing that democracy might be the answer?

I believe so, but before we move on, what do we mean by democracy?

Aristotle defined democracy as the constitution in which the free and the poor, being in the majority, control government.

Now, of course Athenian democracy excluded too many.

But it would be a mistake to dismiss the significance of ancient Athenian democracy on the basis of whom it excluded.

What was more pertinent, and continues to be so about ancient Athenian democracy, was the inclusion of the working poor, who not only acquired the right to free speech, but more importantly, crucially, they acquired the rights to political judgments that were afforded equal weight in the decision-making concerning matters of state.

Now, of course, Athenian democracy didn't last long.

Whereas Athenian democracy was focusing on the masterless citizen and empowering the working poor, our liberal democracies are founded on the Magna Carta tradition, which was, after all, a charter for masters.

So the more capitalism succeeds in taking the demos out of democracy, the taller the twin peaks and the greater the waste of human resources and humanity's wealth.

But above all else, it is a world in which we will be able to imagine an authentic democracy.

With this crisis migrating from one part of the world, as it is now, it will destabilize not only our democracies, but even the emerging world that is not that keen on liberal democracy.

In our liberal democracies, we have a semblance of democracy.

It has deprioritized democracy and it has state capitalism, which is a completely different model.

And when we change our behavior in our daily lives, we sometimes leave out the citizenship part and the democracy part.

In order to be optimistic about this, we have to become incredibly active as citizens in our democracy.

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