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And when so many of the policies are contrary to fundamental values, that we're all equal under the law, that we're not judged by the color of our skin or the religion we worship, we have to contest those values even as we recognize and honor the fact that our democracy rendered us a president who is championing those values.
It's not just taking away our agency to spend our attention and live the lives that we want, it's changing the way that we have our conversations, it's changing our democracy, and it's changing our ability to have the conversations and relationships we want with each other.
Instead of handicapping our attention, imagine if we used all of this data and all of this power and this new view of human nature to give us a superhuman ability to focus and a superhuman ability to put our attention to what we cared about and a superhuman ability to have the conversations that we need to have for democracy.
But as I was working on my third story, I ended up criticizing the president, and questioning the lack of democracy in Mexico.
That's not true democracy.
Or the intelligence to be able to participate in democracy.
You know, free press is essential to our democracy.
In other words, not an autocracy in which I would lead and others would follow and not a democracy in which everybody's points of view were equally valued, but I wanted to have an idea meritocracy in which the best ideas would win out.
This process allows us to make decisions not based on democracy, not based on autocracy, but based on algorithms that take people's believability into consideration.
In a genuine democracy, we're constantly offended since people express different views all the time.
Woman: (Cheering) Woman 2 (offscreen): Yes! Sethembile Msezane: Pretty cool, huh? (Applause) So I realized that through my performances, I've been able to make regular people reflect upon their society, looking at the past as well as the current democracy.
We can't continue in the 21st century, and after 21 years of democracy, have the colonizers in our own country.
To put the assumptions very clearly: capitalism, after 150 years, has become acceptable, and so has democracy.
Will democracy flourish?
People have said that yes, the internet came, its promise was to exponentially explode our access to more democracy, more information, less bias, more varied information.
PA: We learned so much about movement, about love and about art at its most impactful: when it articulates the impossible and when it erodes individualism, when it plays into the gray places of our black and white worlds, when it does what our democracy does not, when it reminds us that we are not islands, when it adorns every street but Wall Street and Madison Avenue, when it reminds us that we are not islands and refuses to succumb to the numbness, when it indicts empire and inspires each and every one of us to love, tell the truth and make revolution irresistible.
They could support the struggles of other people elsewhere, but they themselves did not have to struggle for the basics of democracy anymore, because they were beyond that stage.
Having seen how our dreams of democracy and how our dreams of coexistence were crushed in Turkey, both gradually but also with a bewildering speed, over the years I've felt quite demoralized.
So from populist demagogues, we will learn the indispensability of democracy.
But we use this language from a bygone era to scare ourselves into doing something because we're a democracy and that's what it takes.
So, we know that apathy really costs us a lot, especially in our democracy.
We know that if we can't have a democracy in the United States, we can't have democracies throughout the world, unless people participate.
And when you live in a free country, there's this tendency of assuming that those who are oppressed tolerate their oppression or are comfortable with it, and democracy is projected as a progressive form of governance in such a way that those people who don't live under democratic countries are seen as people who are not intellectually or maybe morally as advanced as others.
Democracy, as a type of politics, is a technology for the control and deployment of power.
And I would add that bin Laden and his followers are consciously devoted to the goal of creating a conflict between democracy, or at least capitalist democracy, on the one hand, and the world of Islam as they see and define it.
And I ran immediately into a conceptual problem: you can't show a picture of democracy.
You can show a slogan, or a symbol, or a sign that stands for democracy.
It follows from that that all of the people in the world who say that they are Muslims can, in principle, subscribe to a wide range of different interpretations of what Islam really is, and the same is true of democracy.
And ostensibly, the same is true of democracy.
Some people say that democracy consists basically in elections.
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