The Powerball Revolution
Revisionist History
Pushkin Industries
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🗓️ 2 July 2020
⏱️ 41 minutes
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In Bolivia, a political activist radically reforms the voting process for... student council elections. Who else does he convince? Revisionist History. And maybe a fancy private school in New Jersey. Get Revisionist History updates first by signing up for our newsletter at pushkin.fm.
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| 0:00.0 | Pushing. |
| 0:11.0 | One day, not long ago, I went to visit the Lawrenceville School just outside Princeton, New Jersey. |
| 0:19.0 | A very old, prestigious private school, leafy campus, gothic, this and that. |
| 0:25.0 | I asked one of their deans, could I come and meet with some students? She said yes. |
| 0:32.0 | Does everyone have a piece of paper and pen? |
| 0:35.0 | The dean put together a group of 20 kids. We met in a conference room looking out on the campus lawn. |
| 0:41.0 | On a scale of 1 to 10, don't put your name on it. I would like you to rank your happiness |
| 0:46.0 | with the Lawrenceville School's current electoral process. |
| 0:50.0 | 10 is you think it's perfect? One is you think it's maybe time to bring in Adam. |
| 0:58.0 | Adam. |
| 0:59.0 | Adam Cronkwright. He was the reason I was there. |
| 1:03.0 | Okay. Hi everyone, thanks for coming. |
| 1:07.0 | My name is Malcolm Gapel, so as you know, I am a writer and I have a podcast called Visionist History. |
| 1:15.0 | That's how the afternoon began. I said I wanted to run an idea by them. |
| 1:24.0 | An idea field tested by this person I just met, Adam Cronkwright. |
| 1:29.0 | About talent and chance and how we choose others to lead us. |
| 1:33.0 | And I would encourage you all to be, if you think I'm crazy, you should say Malcolm you're crazy. |
| 1:40.0 | Maybe this idea could change a lot about what's wrong with the world right now, or maybe not. |
| 1:46.0 | Visionist History is about the overlooked and misunderstood. |
| 1:51.0 | Usually I decide what belongs in either of those categories. |
| 1:54.0 | This time I thought I'd just run Adam's idea by the students of Lawrenceville and at them decide. |
| 2:04.0 | All this had to do with the way they elected their student council. |
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