Chris Anderson Quick question for you, Dan.

Boy Panthers?

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We are now children of the French Enlightenment.

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You can come to the opening. I'll invite you.

You know, I keep talking about this idea of telling a story, and it's like science communication has taken on this idea of what I call the tyranny of precision, where you can't just tell a story.

So the distance from the world that is provided, is profoundly creative of all that is human, both the machiavellian and the erasmian.

Bald, white male, 50s, wearing white shirt, blue pants, shot in the shoulder.

Parties and Populists

I think there is. I just want to turn to a few of them.

Because democracy depends on an informed citizenship.

The French are colonialists.

Today, things are a lot more subtle.

Here, I interviewed people who were residents of formerly communist countries, who had all faced the challenge of transitioning to a more democratic and capitalistic society.

A conservative is not always a reactionary.

Read it from an African woman, the damage that we have done.

Do not forget that fascism, communism, capitalism or other isms are all monetary systems.

Before, revolutions used to have ideological names.

No one has a greater power than you except, you know, the bureaucracy and everything.

Communist, Nazi, fascist ...

Individual freedom is the soul of democracy.

I got you the biggest one, because I love you most. Have one on me.

Capitalism is the exploitation of man by man. Communism is the exact opposite.

Communism, capitalism...

Instead, he went on to build a glittering empire of department stores.

Now we've given up with the idea of sermons.

Not the communists and not the French.

And democracy was the political innovation which protected this freedom, because we were liberated from fear so that our minds in fact, whether they be despots or dogmas, could be the protagonists.

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Aubrey. I still can't reach booth.

The Limits of Democracy

The constitution's gone.

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And on December 4, he organized three thousand members of the Youth Communist League, from 14 of the top law schools, who organized themselves, developed posters with the new laws, and went to the police stations and began what he says is a non violent legal revolution to protect citizen rights.

Soviet Union was Communist and it was totalitarian. Communism and democracy are not necessarily things that go against each other.

Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, and for the people.

But the Soviet Union had neither a capitalist system nor a democracy.

I'm concerned about the rise of fundamentalism, religious fundamentalism, and people who say they take the Bible literally, which is, according to some polls, as high as 45 or 50 percent of America.

He has never thought for himself. He just says what his parents say.

There are no more reasons not to do it.

Sexist cavemen at that.

I'm trying. That clock has got me.