Benjamin Barber Strong Democracy Pdf File

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Of the whole (Jean-Jacques Rousseau)? Or does authentic democracy involve a “strong” participation of citizens who see community, solidarity, and the common good as created through their participatory actions and public involvement (Benjamin Barber)? Throughout history rulers were always said to be ruling in the. Benjamin Barber An Aristocracy of Everyone (New York: 1992) We know ourselves by understanding our temporality, our embeddedness in time, our connection to roots—even roots from which we have knowingly severed ourselves. 22; Truly to be free, my choices must truly be mine—must accord with the “me” with which I associate my core identity.

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“I don't divide the world into the weak and the strong, or the successes and the failures, those who make it or those who don't. I divide the world into learners and non-learners.”
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“After September 11, some critics even tried to lump the antiglobalization protesters in with the terrorists, casting them as irresponsible destabilizers of the world order. But the protesters are the children of McWorld, and their objections are not Jihadic but merely democratic. Their grievances concern not world order but world disorder, and if the young demonstrators are a little foolish in their politics, a little naive in their analysis, and a little short on viable solutions, they understand with a sophistication their leaderes apparently lack that globalization's current architecture breeds anarchy, nihilism, and violence.”
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“Hollywood is McWorld's storyteller, and it inculcates secularism, passivity, consumerism, vicariousness, impulse buying, and an accelerated pace of life, not as a result of its overt themes and explicit story lines but by virtue of what Hollywood is and how its products are consumed.”
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“...defining what is important solely by what can be measured is a bad idea - like looking for lost keys not down a dark sidewalk where they were lost, but across the street under the lamppost where the light is better.”
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“Scientists will say with conviction - and they are right - that 'there are no technical or economic barriers to achieving sustainability.' ... Many [market players] understand the science of climate change perfectly well; they are not deniers and don't need to be. They are not ignorant, certainly not stupid; they are simply driven by interests at odds with sustainability or climate justice. What's good for them and what's good for the planet are just not the same.”
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Just beyond the horizon of current events lie two possible politicalfutures—both bleak, neither democratic. The first is a retribalization oflarge swaths of humankind by war and bloodshed: a threatened Lebanonization ofnational states in which culture is pitted against culture, people againstpeople, tribe against tribe—a Jihad in the name of a hundred narrowlyconceived faiths against every kind of interdependence, every kind ofartificial social cooperation and civic mutuality. The second is being borne inon us by the onrush of economic and ecological forces that demand integrationand uniformity and that mesmerize the world with fast music, fast computers,and fast food—with MTV, Macintosh, and McDonald's, pressing nations into onecommercially homogenous global network: one McWorld tied together bytechnology, ecology, communications, and commerce. The planet is fallingprecipitantly apart AND coming reluctantly together at the very same moment.

Benjamin R Barber

These two tendencies are sometimes visible in the same countries at the sameinstant: thus Yugoslavia, clamoring just recently to join the New Europe, isexploding into fragments; India is trying to live up to its reputation as theworld's largest integral democracy while powerful new fundamentalist partieslike the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, along with nationalistassassins, are imperiling its hard-won unity. States are breaking up or joiningup: the Soviet Union has disappeared almost overnight, its parts forming newunions with one another or with like-minded nationalities in neighboringstates. The old interwar national state based on territory and politicalsovereignty looks to be a mere transitional development.