Are We Too Divided to Be Patriotic?
The Good Fight
Yascha Mounk
4.7 • 963 Ratings
🗓️ 4 September 2021
⏱️ 54 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | BAM, picture this! You're watching your favorite artist, |
| 0:03.4 | play. Not that artist! |
| 0:05.4 | Ha ha, yeah, that's you! |
| 0:08.0 | You look down at the red can in your hand, or is it? |
| 0:11.4 | No, it's a Pepsi Max. |
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| 0:28.9 | code at UK slash FAQ. |
| 0:30.6 | Whereas conventional appeals to patriotism or nationalism have this top-down quality that I think |
| 0:39.2 | makes them thin and unsatisfactory, I'm much more interested in finding ways that we can pursue and realize |
| 0:49.3 | disagreement as a serious and legitimate feature of American life, |
| 0:53.4 | rather than dismissing it in pursuit of some evanescent similarity. |
| 0:58.4 | And now the good fight with Yasha Monk. For those of us who care about democracy and human rights, the last weeks have been |
| 1:11.0 | really bitter. The Taliban's victory in Kabul and the whole of Afghanistan, |
| 1:16.0 | that's just the hopes of millions of Afghans, |
| 1:21.0 | of girls who were able to go to school and learn reading and writing and aspire to a better life, |
| 1:28.0 | of women who were able to work and have some forms of rights and freedoms of secularists and liberals who do not want to live under a |
| 1:41.0 | phiocratic regime. It will also have destabilizing effects well beyond |
| 1:47.2 | for borders of Afghanistan, posing a challenge to neighboring countries like India and |
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