Martin Gurri
The Good Fight
Yascha Mounk
4.7 • 963 Ratings
🗓️ 13 November 2019
⏱️ 62 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | At Barclays, we're here for every goal. |
| 0:06.4 | We're here for the Premier League, |
| 0:09.0 | and the Barclays Women's Super League. |
| 0:12.0 | We're here for the football chance for giving more girls a chance. |
| 0:18.0 | We're here for the grassroots and all the muddy boots. From schools to stadiums, we're here for it all. |
| 0:25.0 | Barclays, here for every goal. |
| 0:30.0 | The public, which is used now to a flat digital world where you can get the date, you can get a car, you can get anything you want, a house, literally the speed of light by clicking a computer suddenly is confronted with government and media that |
| 0:46.2 | is distant far away slow moving and never listens. |
| 0:50.5 | And now the good fight with Yasha Monk. |
| 0:53.0 | The 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall past just a couple of days ago. |
| 0:59.0 | And I've been thinking back on my own memories of the fall of a wall and what they might mean today. |
| 1:08.0 | I have a vivid memory of watching the fall of a bull on wall live on television when I would have been seven years old. |
| 1:16.6 | I see myself in this big spacious living room following along the events and having some very |
| 1:22.3 | childlike understanding that people who had been terribly oppressed, who had been unfree, would now be able to live in liberty. |
| 1:32.0 | But there's one problem with that memory, that big spacious living |
| 1:35.8 | room that I'm picturing in my mind belongs to a house in which I and my family did not live until two or three years after the fall of a war. |
| 1:45.6 | I must have seen all of this on a documentary when I was 9 or 10 and misremembered it as seeing it live. What's interesting about this memory is that I think |
| 1:56.9 | more broadly we have a forced memory of what 1989 was about. |
| 2:02.6 | As the wonderful political scientist Ivan Krasstev, |
| 2:04.8 | who have had on a previous episode of a good fight, |
| 2:07.4 | has argued, we assumed that 1989 was a liberal democratic revolution, that everybody was united not just in |
| 2:17.2 | disliking the communist regime but in wanting liberal democracy. |
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