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If the West chooses to compete with the Chinese model, and in effect go around the world and continue to try and push an agenda of private capitalism and liberal democracy, this is basically going against headwinds, but it also would be a natural stance for the West to take because in many ways it is the antithesis of the Chinese model of de-prioritizing democracy, and state capitalism.
And instead of shoehorning
democracy
around the world, perhaps the West should take a leaf out of its own history book and remember that it takes a lot of patience in order to develop the models and the systems that you have today.
But also, it's going to require that we look at our assumptions, assumptions and strictures that we've grown up with around democracy, around private capitalism, around what creates economic growth and reduces poverty and creates freedoms.
I'm showing you
democracy
versus autocracy.
So
democracy
is encouraging governments to invest in education.
Her email was read, and she spoke at the United Nations Headquarters, and she said, "If there is no right to privacy, there can be no true freedom of expression and opinion, and therefore, there can be no effective democracy."
And in a democracy, we ought to be able to do better.
And one thing is that it is also a very beautiful democratic symbol, because as buses zoom by, expensive cars stuck in traffic, it clearly is almost a picture of
democracy
at work.
Here, what you see is a picture that shows insufficient
democracy.
And just as busways are, protected bikeways also are a powerful symbol of democracy, because they show that a citizen on a $30 bicycle is equally important to one in a $30,000 car.
Last year, the Hansard Society, a nonpartisan charity which seeks to strengthen parliamentary
democracy
and encourage greater public involvement in politics published, alongside their annual audit of political engagement, an additional section devoted entirely to politics and the media.
They are consuming media that reinforces their negative evaluation of politics, thereby contributing to a fatalistic and cynical attitude to
democracy
and their own role within it.
Little wonder that the report concluded that in this respect, the press, particularly the tabloids, appear not to be living up to the importance of their role in our
democracy.
It is seldom, if ever, extended to equally important arguments around the fragility of our present system of government, to the notion that honesty, accuracy and impartiality are fundamental to the process of building and embedding an informed, participatory
democracy.
Democracy, in order to work, requires that reasonable men and women take the time to understand and debate difficult, sometimes complex issues, and they do so in an atmosphere which strives for the type of understanding that leads to, if not agreement, then at least a productive and workable compromise.
Democracy, well-led and well-informed, can achieve very great things, but there's a precondition.
If we want to provide decent, fulfilling lives for our children and our children's children, we need to exercise to the very greatest degree possible that duty of care for a vibrant, and hopefully a lasting,
democracy.
And from the Wright brothers to Steve Jobs, hacking has always been at the foundation of American
democracy.
He brought us bifocals and the lightning rod, and of course there was his collaboration on the invention of American
democracy.
So it's no wonder that the values that underly a healthy democracy, like collaboration and empowerment and participation and enterprise, are the same values that underly the Internet.
ES: I would say the last year has been a reminder that
democracy
may die behind closed doors, but we as individuals are born behind those same closed doors, and we don't have to give up our privacy to have good government.
I don't think we can have a
democracy
if we're having to protect you and our users from the government for stuff that we've never had a conversation about.
I think we need to have a debate about that, or we can't have a functioning
democracy.
You have got to get a clue, because there is a flaw at the core of the operating system of this democracy, and it's not a flaw every one out of 360 billion times our
democracy
tries to make a decision.
It's in the developmental power of entrepreneurship, the ethical power of
democracy.
You can see what these crises do to inequality and what they do to our
democracy.
Our project was a shock for many Russians, who used to think that our country has always been an autocratic empire and the ideas of freedom and
democracy
could never have prevailed, just because
democracy
was not our destiny.
And the soldier folded his arms, and the artist launched into a Jeffersonian panegyric to
democracy
such as those of us who live in a Jeffersonian
democracy
would be hard-pressed to present.
The March on Washington is one of the high points of the movement, and it's where there was a fervent belief that African-Americans too could be a part of American
democracy.
I had read civics books that told me about the ideals of American
democracy.
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