And I don't know enough about it and I don't know enough technology to know whether it could have been done in a more demagogue , Caesar, emerges somewhere along the line.
jobs for people on farms that paid all that much. demagogues then you will having a larger share of an economy that's almost dead in the water and a politics that's getting steadily angrier and meaner.
phrase, "the horse if out of the barn", it's over. It's over. Privacy is over. Privacy is not over. We need privacy. Without privacy, really you have some choices between dictatorship, demagogues . Privacy's not over. We have to just learn how to live with this technology in the kind of privacy we need to have the kind of open society we need. And there's like, "privacyis over". You have to learn how to live with this. So all "the horses out of the barn", "we're addicted". They're just ways of deferring and not dealing with the problem.
Politicians take advantage of that. They demagogue about it. They run on let's get tough on crime, let's lock 'em up, throw away the key mentality.
And I think that unless one deals with the divisions, then it's only going to get worse. But the demagogue leader that does work off of the bottom takes a look at it and first of all uses nationalism-- this is our people that are doing this.
thought broadly that well, that was going to be our future that we had this new coalition that was going to be constantly resistant to the demagoguery on the right. And somebody else like Obama would come along. I think we just missed the fact that um without Obama, we actually do need a narrative and we never developed a a persuasive one.
or performance. And now he sees it works for him. He sees by being a demagogue , by being a racist, by being kind of proto-fascist that there's always a crowd for that.
And I don't know enough about it and I don't know enough technology to know whether it could have been done in a more Captures the conversation as a demagogue .
Very good question. I think wars are created when inequality is bad. If you go back to the Great Depression and see people being willing to elect demagogues to say we can save you. And then you get war coming out of it. What happened
students hand to prefer a rational debate Republicans prefer an emotional debate where they're willing to use demagoguery I think a little bit more often than the immigrants let's uh
Now, you may say people were involved in the inventions that led to the internet and the design is part of it. I think the invention of radio was a technology that helped demagogue populist dictators
And I don't know enough about it and I don't know enough technology to know whether it could have been done in a more I'm sorry-- meaning that the person just sort of captures the conversation as a demagogue ?
old hatreds, blame your economic situation on the ancient people we've never liked." And he said it was like pouring gasoline on a bunch of glowing coals that you thought were burned out already. And it just flared right up because it's an ancient tool that demagogues can use. I think you can play in the ancient hatreds. But the ancient hatreds come up because other reasons arise, economic in the former Yugoslavian he was suggesting. Well, you could make a kind of a tie in here that the party that's benefiting from, let's call them, disaffected, disenfranchised
the freedom is for. And if nothing else fills that space, those de Tocqueville intermediary institutions, religion, community, family, civic life, all of that, then markets and algorithms and demagogues and I guess now AI will do it for us. I mean, do you agree that that vacuum, for lack of a better word, is, um, a real vulnerability of liberalism?
And what we've been left with, what this fragmentation of our discourse has given us, is that it has delivered us into a world where the only people who claim to be moral experts -- indeed the only people who claim that there's such a thing as moral expertise are religious demagogues of one or another flavor. And this has shattered our world into these separate moral communities where there is just no, there's nothing for a fundamentalist Christian to say to a Islamist to bridge their
Now, you may say people were involved in the inventions that led to the internet and the design is part of it. There's something about the state of technology, the state of society in the early 20th century that encourages the emergence of demagogue dictators,
"Cars," Lightning McQueen, arrogant, brattish sports car, lost in the middle of a small American town, learns the values of friendship, love, as the child abuser, the preacher who's the love rat, the union leader who's the demagogue .
he said, "All of that was going in the other direction. All of that was trending. We were having movies made about Serbian girls falling in love with Croatian boys. You know, it was going their version of the all in the family Archie Bunker route, right?" He said, "But then the economy turned." He said, "And demagogues found that they could get power by playing with the old hatreds, blame your economic situation on the ancient people we've never liked." And he said it was like pouring gasoline on a bunch of glowing coals that you thought were burned out already.
What is bad is if my identity hates your identity. And then that turns into nationalism and hyper-nationalism, which is very dangerous, and is used by demagogues to motivate people who feel displaced. And one of the things that has happened is the other megatrend, which is technology.
And it seems like access to written word is something that you value highly. It's the most single most important aspect of the democratic society, because in a society in which people read, the big lies of demagogues can't stand, because we can tell ourselves using data and facts and even our own feelings that they're wrong,
What we see now across the country is a degree of insecurity, economic insecurity that I've not seen in my lifetime. And economic insecurity translates, remember politics, economics, politics, economics, moral philosophy, economic insecurity translates into fertile ground for demagogues who want to channel those angers and frustrations at easy targets.
He wrote that "the American girl is well acquainted with her body's seductive capacity. The irony is that the people who -- the only people who agree with me and think there are right answers to moral questions are the religious demagogues who think they have those answers