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AMA | July 2022

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

CHAPTER

We Are a Democracy, Right?

We're a democracy right now, but there's no reason to think that we will be forever. The roman republic lasted for 500 years, which is hugely long. We could last for another two and a half years. You know, we just don't know. And that's not to say, because we don't know,. anything goes, we can certainly pin point probabilities. But yo, big, established, clear cut countries that have been having a democratic system - the united states is the longest existing one in the world.

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