Democracy Needs Moments of Political Loneliness

The book ends with this argument that we need, we need moments of political solitude. We need maybe to go back and read thucydides, or read aristotle when he's going through his different definitions of democracy. Ta sometimes it's a civic act,. It's an act of citizenship to sit in a room, lone and read something about democracy in india, for example - because their alienness is significant and salient for the politics of the day. D i think that that's a real important you know, democracy needs us to be active, yes, it also needs us to reflect our reflections.