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Gal Beckerman — How Newness Enters the World

On Being with Krista Tippett

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The Unexpected Origins of Radical Ideas - The Quiet Before

In 18 39, two million signatures collected on pages that were pasted together. The petition campaign was the brain child of fergus o'connor who was a kind of progressive politician at the time. His message to people: pour your passion into the petition and have conversations around it. You know, this how also a moment this interesting juncture between a kind of oral culture and literate culture.

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