If i had to choose who to favour, it would be the neediest. Is that unusual? Perhaps the groupes are disproportionately noisy. It's that last part o me that's one of the flaws fot social mediam. And so the quest is, how do we recognize that without becoming complaisant? T is not supposed to be an excuse not to care if something happens far away or in a country we've never been to. But i think when we're thinking about how to set up our societies, that is an insight that we need to take seriously and start with as a basis.
During an era of identity politics, culture wars and increasing awareness of the structural biases that contribute to global inequality, it’s easy to become pessimistic about the possibility of making diverse democracies work. Yascha Mounk is a writer and political scientist whose recent book, The Great Experiment: Why Diverse Democracies Fall Apart and How They Can Endure, offers analysis of how our fractured societies can acknowledge the injustices of the past, while moving forward towards conciliation and cooperation. Hosting the discussion is BBC journalist and broadcaster Ritula Shah.
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