@newsagents.bsky.social Fascinating discussion between @lewisgoodall.com and #davidRunciman about why the current parlous state of our politics is actually pretty normal. Worth a good long listen. Not to mention the best advocation of changing our bonkers electoral system.
Excellent evening @regentstcinema.bsky.social for a screening of #Rope, followed by @ppfideas.bsky.social live podcast recording with #DavidRunciman and @niccifrench.bsky.social 👏
"It might in the US seem impossible that a society based on 'American freedoms' could turn into this kind of repressive theocracy overnight."
#DavidRunciman, August, 2024
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A year later ...
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#podcasts #PastPresentFuture #GreatPoliticalFictions
See also #DavidRunciman 's superb history of 1945, the how, what & what-ifs of what shaped British politics and social history over the last 80 years. #Postwar still on #BBCSounds & omnibussing on Friday nights in lieu of #BBCFreeThinking during the summer www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/serie...
In lieu of an actual #StartTheWeek, caught up with this discussion of #AI #democracy & #TheState which now (18 months on) seems more than prescient. @tds153.bsky.social @naomialderman.bsky.social #DavidRunciman #MikeWooldridge
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I've never thought deeply about exactly what people might mean when they talk about "the polycrisis". So I'm glad I got the chance, thanks to David Runciman doing an episode about it for his History of Bad Ideas series;
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"What If… The French Revolution Had Happened in China?"
"David talks to world historian Ayse Zarakol about how the East might well have risen to global dominance before the West. What if the key revolutions of the modern world – political and industrial – had happened in Asia first?" […]
Excellent evening @regentstcinema.bsky.social for @ppfideas.bsky.social live event. A showing of #Network, followed by discussion between #DavidRunciman and @helenlewis.bsky.social Good fluent discourse that makes you think about the world, both past, present and future is to be valued! 👏👏👏
Looking forward to seeing #Network tomorrow @regentstcinema.bsky.social as part of a live @ppfideas.bsky.social event with #DavidRunciman and @helenlewis.bsky.social
Two books, one called How democracy ends by David Runciman, and the other called Technofeudalusm, by Yanis Varoufakis.
A reading long overdue, since I bought these books almost a year ago… 2024 surpassed in the left lane at high speed, and took the world beyond what my fears were warning me about…
#yanisvaroufakis #technofeudalism #davidrunciman #howdemocracyends
Clues to understanding Trump:
4. #DavidRunciman takes on political films (Colonel Blinp, Grand Illusion, Kane, Manchurian Candidate, Mr. Smith) describes our election as the death (again) of Romanticism. Brilliant. #PPF
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