They Don’t Represent Us — with Larry Lessig

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🗓️ 20 October 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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This week on Your Undivided Attention, we're doing something special. As we near the election, and representation is on our minds, we're airing a talk by Harvard Law professor and Creative Commons co-founder Larry Lessig. In what ways does our government not represent us — and do we not represent ourselves? How might we revive the relationship between the will of the people and the actions of our government? Join us.

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0:00.0	We often talk about the need to protect American democracy,
0:04.1	but perhaps the Americans among us don't currently live in a democracy.
0:09.0	As research has shown, there's pretty much no relationship
0:12.8	between the percentage of the population that supports a policy
0:16.6	and the likelihood of that policy getting enacted.
0:20.8	And the strongest determinant of whether a policy gets enacted
0:24.1	is how much money is put behind it.
0:27.0	So what can we do to not just protect, but shall we say,
0:30.9	revive our democracy?
0:33.3	What can we do to revive the relationship between the will of the people
0:36.8	and the actions of the government?
0:39.3	I'm Pristan Harris, and this is your undivided attention,
0:43.1	the podcast from the Center for Humane Technology.
0:45.9	Today we're doing something a little bit special as we
0:47.9	near the American election and representation of the public is on our minds.
0:52.6	We're airing a talk by Harvard Law Professor and Creative Commons co-founder
0:56.4	Larry Lesick. This is a talk he gave in 2019 that the politics and prose
1:00.7	bookstore in Washington DC about his book They Don't Represent Us.
1:06.0	The title They Don't Represent Us actually has two meanings.
1:10.0	First, as in our elected representatives, don't represent us.
1:14.6	And the second, kind of more related to this show,
1:17.7	is how we the people don't represent ourselves.
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