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We need to use these crises. This is our shot to get out of the G0 and geopolitical recession.

There are these three big global crises that are in front of us right now.

Pandemic largely wasted.

Climate, largely taking advantage of it.

AI and disruptive technologies?

Still too soon to tell, but we better get our act together now.

And now the good fight with Yasha Monk.

For the last week's I have been talking you through part two of the great experiment

setting out the vision for the kind of diverse democracy that we should aim for.

Defending the basic philosophically liberal principles that I think can structure such a society from how to think about the relationship between the individual, the group and the state to the kind of metaphor which would govern the extent of integration or assimilation to a defense of inclusive patriotism based on civic values as well as everyday cultural patriotism.

In the last part of my book and the last part of the great experiment,

I make the case for why there is reason to think that we can actually build such a diverse democracy and how we are able to get there. So I will talk about that today and then for two more weeks.

The chapter I talk about today, chapter 8 is called reasons for optimism and before I get to the

substantive reasons for optimism I think it's important to discuss why a kind of

fashionable pessimism can lead us astray.

A lot of people like to point out the things that are going wrong in the world.

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