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I've spent much of my career working with journalists, with bloggers, with activists, with human rights researchers all around the world, and I've come to the conclusion that if our democratic societies do not double down on protecting and defending human rights, freedom of the press and a free and open internet, radical extremist ideologies are much more likely to persist.
That is, it is how societies are taught ideologies.
And, critically, they typically lead to more peaceful and democratic societies.
I've been talking a lot about my experiences in the Middle East, and some of you might be thinking now that the solution then is for us to educate Muslim and Arab societies to be more inclusive of their women.
This is a question of whether we're moving towards more democratic and peaceful societies.
As societies become wealthier and better off, people seem to turn their focus of attention outward, and as a result, all kinds of altruism towards strangers increases, from volunteering to charitable donations and even altruistic kidney donations.
Eighty-six percent of human societies permit a man to have several wives: polygyny.
The bottom line is, in hunting and gathering societies, they tended to have two or three partners during the course of their lives.
In contrast, the poor and the most vulnerable in our societies are using devices that leave them completely vulnerable to surveillance.
Because if we don't, we might end up feeling like aliens in organizations and societies that are full of smart machines that have no appreciation whatsoever for the unnecessary, the intimate, the incomplete and definitely not for the ugly.
But thankfully, today, most of humanity lives in far more peaceful societies, and when there is conflict, we, especially in the United States, now have the technology to put our warriors through advanced training, drop them in to fight anywhere on the globe and when they're done, jet them back to peacetime suburbia.
And that tribalism allowed us to create large societies and to come together in order to compete with others.
As our societies grew more complex and our trade routes grew more distant, we built up more formal institutions, institutions like banks for currency, governments, corporations.
Even in the freest societies in the world, we're not free.
They want us to tear open more wounds in our societies so that they can use them to spread their infection more widely.
Stories can even make it easier for us to talk about the deaths of people in our societies who don't matter, because they make us care.
But how will we understand what it is in human societies that produces violence if we refuse to recognize the humanity of those who commit it?
Stories tell us what societies value, they offer us lessons, and they share and preserve our history.
You can use the same technology to create very different kinds of societies.
You have to wonder why in so many societies we insist that our kids pursue engineering or medicine or business or law to be construed as successful.
Compassion, because a billion people are living in societies that have not offered credible hope.
You go up in the short run, but then most societies historically have ended up worse than if they'd had no booms at all.
In all the societies of the bottom billion, there are intense struggles to do just that.
We would be helping the reformers in these societies, who are struggling for change.
We cannot change these societies, but we can help the people in these societies who are struggling and usually failing, because the odds are so stacked against them.
I realized that the reason they're not there is that until we have a critical mass of informed citizens in our own societies, politicians will get away with gestures.
Each one of us contributes to the communities and the cultures and the societies that we make up.
That feels deeply immoral, and maybe people on the left could agree, as you said, that immigration may have happened too fast, and there is a limit beyond which human societies struggle, but nonetheless this whole problem becomes de-emphasized if automation is the key issue, and then we try to work together on recognizing that it's real, recognizing that the problem probably wasn't properly addressed or seen or heard, and try to figure out how to rebuild communities using, well, using what?
Our societies have become really diverse, which makes it difficult for pollsters to get a really nice representative sample of the population for their polls.
There are four societies: the Kogi, the Wiwa, the Kankwano and the Arhuacos.
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