Welcome to our preview of Parsley Xamarin Life Episode 254 Part 2.

We just did an interview with Michael J. Sandel about his new book, The Tyranny of Merit,

and after he left we continued that discussion.

Getting very practical, very political, let me play you two sections from near the beginning

of that conversation.

The first one Seth initiates about how to have these public moral conversations that Sandel

recommends.

In the second, from a little later, where Wes initiates a discussion of high school as a metaphor

for society, how could we change the values in a high school versus a society as a whole?

We're in the situation where the so-called democratization of communication has actually

centralized when we talk about Twitter dominating discourse, right, or Facebook, or these social media

platforms.

So we've got this centralization of location for where discourse happens.

This quote-unquote democratized discourse.

And part of what I think is a response is it made me think of our Tocqueville episode

that he said, what it is that makes America America and what it is that makes the American

democracy work is associations.

And I think that's something that's really suffered.

But if you want to talk about where would be the practical place to get started where people

could start having conversations, it has to start, I think, not at some global social media

level where everybody is an abstract entity without any personalization or individualization

and where the platform can be dominated and manipulated.

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