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But that's the basic thesis of democracy, that the conflict of different points of views leads to the truth.
The real safety of our nation is preparing this next generation so that they can take our place and be the leaders of the world when it comes to thinking and technology and democracy and all that stuff we care about.
Now it's not just that that's bad for democracy, though I think it probably is, it's actually not a very clever business strategy, actually.
It's a threat for democracy and society.
But I will in the end urge you to rethink, actually take risks, and get involved in what I see as a global evolution of democracy.
And why is our democracy not working?
Let's start from democracy.
And democracy was the political innovation which protected this freedom, because we were liberated from fear so that our minds in fact, whether they be despots or dogmas, could be the protagonists.
Democracy was the political innovation that allowed us to limit the power, whether it was of tyrants or of high priests, their natural tendency to maximize power and wealth.
Well, we survived, but democracy did not.
Yet I have come to believe that the problem is not so much one of economics as it is one of democracy.
Let's throw democracy at the problem.
Democracy could not work without the citizens deliberating, debating, taking on public responsibilities for public affairs.
They serve the demos, democracy.
So let's see if it can't be an experiment in global democracy, a new kind of democracy.
Where our common identity is democracy, where our education is through participation, and where participation builds trust and solidarity rather than exclusion and xenophobia.
Europe of and by the people, a Europe, an experiment in deepening and widening democracy beyond borders.
Everyone who participates in this global exchange of ideas, whether it's here in this room or just outside this room or online or locally, where everybody lives, everyone who stands up to injustice and inequality, everybody who stands up to those who preach racism rather than empathy, dogma rather than critical thinking, technocracy rather than democracy, everyone who stands up to the unchecked power, whether it's authoritarian leaders, plutocrats hiding their assets in tax havens, or powerful lobbies protecting the powerful few.
Autonomous robotic weapons are such a tool, except that, by requiring very few people to go to war, they risk re-centralizing power into very few hands, possibly reversing a five-century trend toward democracy.
And this would put a chill on free speech and popular political action, the very heart of democracy.
Autonomous robotic weapons concentrate too much power in too few hands, and they would imperil democracy itself.
Sooner or later, electoral democracy will be the only political system for all countries and all peoples, with a free market to make them all rich.
Winston Churchill once said that democracy is a terrible system except for all the rest.
Democracy is becoming a perpetual cycle of elect and regret.
At this rate, I'm afraid it is democracy, not China's one-party system, that is in danger of losing legitimacy.
India, the largest democracy in the world, 94 and dropping.
Meta-narrative is the cancer that is killing democracy from the inside.
I'm not here to make an indictment of democracy.
On the contrary, I think democracy contributed to the rise of the West and the creation of the modern world.
If they would spend just a little less time on trying to force their way onto others, and a little bit more on political reform at home, they might give their democracy a better chance.
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