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I don’t think that our current problems come from the failings of our voting methods, but rather from a lack of political vision of what we want to achieve. Cit
by AlbertoGP 4y ago
I don’t think that our current problems come from the failings of our voting methods, but rather from a lack of political vision of what we want to achieve. Citing Adam Curtis’ “HyperNormalisation”, 2016, at 2:19:12:
> And the other revolutions were also failing.
> The Occupy camps had become trapped in endless meetings and it became clear that there was a terrible confusion at the heart of the movement.
> The radicals had believed that if they could create a new way of organizing people, then a new society would emerge.
> But what they did not have was a picture of what that society would be like, a vision of the future.
> The truth was that their revolution was not about an idea, it was about how you manage things.
> And those who had started the revolution in Egypt came face to face with the same terrible fact: social media had helped to bring people together in Tahir square, but once there the Internet gave no clue as to what kind of new society they could create in Egypt.
> The movement stalled, and a group that did have a powerful idea, the Muslim Brotherhood, rushed in to fill the vacuum.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thLgkQBFTPw&t=8345s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thLgkQBFTPw&t=8345s