lili
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lili
subtle stylist and a self-willed Everyman
Deborah Treisman • The Underground Worlds of Haruki Murakami
There are no mistakes, just variations
I end up always going back there, dragged back there in a way, and then it’s just a matter of never, ever repeating myself.
Dennis Cooper on Writing as Sculpture
the people who can start things will be the major beneficiaries in the coming years. because the barrier is no longer knowledge or skills, it’s courage.
sari azout • Tweet
@sari
a gentle rebel
Tom created vibrant, virile, and luminous portrayals of masculine archetypes like bikers and leathermen fearlessly flaunting their desire and sexuality.
We need deliberative spaces that allow people to truly listen to one another and to be heard, to recognise and acknowledge each other, even in difference, to grapple with complexity and spark curiosity – in ideas as well as in why others believe what they do; to have empathy and also to be able to do the hard work of finding common ground on the sh... See more
Darrell Bouldin • Assembly required - RSA Comment
Could citizen assemblies be a new model for the future of political decision-making, to overcome some of the challenges of our democratic crisis?
I continued to read the article and want to add the below, to build on the above question.
The more fundamental issue is that a system defined by elections, with political parties and politicians, is designed for short-termism, for debate, for conflict and for polarisation. It puts re-election goals and party logic ahead of the common good. Adding on new forms of democratic institutions like citizens’ assemblies to an electoral system does not address the underlying democratic problems of an elections-based system.
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