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Caroline hosts Astra Taylor, director of the essential-to-now, beautiful, powerful film What is democracy? (offered as pledge enticement for Fund Drive) author of Democracy May Not Exist, but We’ll Miss It When It’s Gone, Debt Collectivist.
zeitgeistfilms.com/film/whatisdemocracy
twitter: @astradisastra
to avert disaster – let’s gather to consider
Coming at a moment of profound political and social crisis, What Is Democracy? reflects on a word we too often take for granted.
Director Astra Taylor’s idiosyncratic, philosophical journey spans millennia and continents: from ancient Athens’ groundbreaking experiment in self-government to capitalism’s roots in medieval Italy; from modern-day Greece grappling with financial collapse and a mounting refugee crisis to the United States reckoning with its racist past and the growing gap between rich and poor.Featuring a diverse cast—including celebrated theorists, trauma surgeons, activists, factory workers, asylum seekers, and former prime ministers—this urgent film connects the past and the present, the emotional and the intellectual, the personal and the political, in order to provoke and inspire. If we want to live in democracy, we must first ask what the word even means.
From the director of Zizek! and Examined Life!
WHAT IS DEMOCRACY? opened in theaters on January 16, 2019.
Whoa team, this be so essential to our skills to be agents of sane reverence… Conversing to avert disaster we are Gathering to Consider
to be skilled agents of Sane Reverence now, let us cultivate the skills of asking ourselves and others to define Governance (dedication to collective well-being) desirable leadership, Democracy….Defining terms (Saturn) is the beginning of Liberation….
Mercury retrograde now wants us to re-search, re-member the originating liberating impulse, before bamboozled and hood-winked, cook it all back to essential liberating impulse, derived from Nature… Bees dancing democracy (learned from Janine Benyus) the Herd collectively deciding when to go to the watering hole…
And how shall we cultivate Citizen Trickster, derived amd partnering with Flora Fauna…Moon exalted in Taurus quintiles Mercury retrograde….we are proffered the capacity to open doors between the desirable historic past, and to have irresistible eloquence on behalf of what we love…
