"... when people talk about 'democracy', they mean the democracy that we've had for the past 100 years and they think that that is the absolutely universal default. And it is ... historically contingent, it's probably moved quite a long way through it's life cycle - is my guess - and it's coming to the end of its life."
#DavidRunciman, 2025
https://www.ppfideas.com/episodes/fixing-democracy%3A-citizens%E2%80%99-assemblies
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"And then people think 'oh my god that means we're about to head back into a world of autocracy and fascism'. No! It should mean we're about to head to a world of different kinds of democracy."
#DavidRunciman, 2025
https://www.ppfideas.com/episodes/fixing-democracy%3A-citizens%E2%80%99-assemblies
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