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We have got to make sure that we can move our economies forward, and also our societies, based on the idea that people can really feel mathematics.
And when it gets decoupled, we might find that democracy, the multitude of voices, actually impedes capitalism because a state that does not have any pretense of limited government can very quickly mandate a regulatory framework for drones, for electric cars, for self-driving cars, for any new innovation where they feel that they can leapfrog Western societies.
And in places where you wouldn't think, such as South Korea, India and China, the very strict patriarchal societies are starting to break down a little, and families are no longer strongly preferring first-born sons.
Over several decades, South Korea built one of the most patriarchal societies we know about.
Within African societies, we had spaces, both social and spiritual, that helped institutionalize healthy sexual practices.
And so in a gathering where we're focused on women, while it is so critical that we invest in our girls and we even the playing field and we find ways to honor them, we have to remember that the girls and the women are most isolated and violated and victimized and made invisible in those very societies where our men and our boys feel disempowered, unable to provide.
When you go in these developing societies, women are the pillars of their community, but the men are still the ones holding the streets.
Human societies got larger, denser, more interconnected.
We are Muslim believers, but we want to be living as free people in free societies."
The reality is that even in democratic societies today, we do not have good answers for how you balance the need for security and law enforcement on one hand and protection of civil liberties and free speech on the other in our digital networks.
I want to share some of that story with you, but also some of my ideas around change and the role of social movements in creating change in Muslim-majority societies.
In medieval societies there were defined allegiances.
And on the flip side, we have transnational Islamist extremists doing the same thing across their own societies.
One of the problems we're facing is, in my view, that there are no globalized, youth-led, grassroots social movements advocating for democratic culture across Muslim-majority societies.
There is no equivalent of the Al-Qaeda, without the terrorism, for democracy across Muslim-majority societies.
Because those who aspire to democratic culture are in power, or have societies that are leading globalized, powerful societies, powerful countries.
So democracy has become merely one political choice among many other forms of political choices available in those societies.
International aid and development has been going on for years, but extremism in those societies, in many of those societies, has been on the rise.
They've been building civilizational demand for their values on the grassroots, and we've been seeing those societies slowly transition to societies that are increasingly asking for a form of Islamism.
What that will do is avoid the problem I was talking about earlier, where currently we have political parties presenting democracy as merely a political choice in those societies alongside other choices such as military rule and theocracy.
To get to that stage, we genuinely need to start building demand in those societies on the ground.
We need to see how we can help those societies move from political coalitions, loosely based political coalitions, to civilizational coalitions that are working for the ideals and narratives of the democratic culture on the ground.
But that will require helping these societies transition from having merely political coalitions to building genuinely grassroots-based social movements that advocate for the democratic culture.
I'm telling you this story because Archie Cochrane, all his life, fought against a terrible affliction, and he realized it was debilitating to individuals and it was corrosive to societies.
They have infused societies with kindness, and we have really felt that as woman after woman has stood on this stage in the past day and a half.
And then second: if we want to challenge the hate in our societies, we need to promote policies and institutions and practices that connect us as communities.
What's changed is we now can look at the evidence, we can compare societies, more and less equal societies, and see what inequality does.
But if we look within our societies, there are extraordinary social gradients in health running right across society.
So income means something very important within our societies, and nothing between them.
Now I'm going to show you what that does to our societies.
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