democratic communities
We’re now confronting the greatest structural challenge to democracy we’ve ever seen: a truly open society. Without gatekeepers, there are no constraints on discourse. Digital technology has changed everything. Consequently, reality is up for grabs in a way it never has been before.
Zac Gershberg • The Paradox of Democracy
Our ongoing inability to define communally-shared visions of lives that are ordinary but noble and valuable has left us terribly frustrated with the modern world, and our sclerotic systems convince us that gradual positive change is impossible.
The Rage of the AI Guy
In other words, without a common and stable world of things to ground our experience with others, without the table around which we might gather, the mind is cut off from a common sense and set loose upon itself in ways that become self-destructive.
Common Worlds, Common Sense, and the Digital Realm
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All democratic communities are held together not by a shared conception of truth but by a commonly recognized experience and a commitment to active dialogue.
Zac Gershberg • The Paradox of Democracy
“Only the experience of sharing a common human world with others who look at it from different perspectives,” she wrote, “can enable us to see reality in the round and to develop a shared common sense.”
However, in the modern world Arendt argued, common sense “became an inner faculty without any world relationship.” “This sense now was called... See more
However, in the modern world Arendt argued, common sense “became an inner faculty without any world relationship.” “This sense now was called... See more