2 - Sustainable Democracy

Democracy has stalled. It lacks vision. It's consumed by feckless conflict. And it's starting to believe the bullshit authoritarians say about it. But we can fix it. We have the technology.

A few bits of belligerent optimism for anyone feeling the weight of (and perhaps even facing down) authoritarianism.

How greed, power, disappointment and an obsession with superhero saviours created a real-life villain that threatens democracy.

I remember sitting in a lecture hall once about 12 years ago listening to a political science lecturer say of the widespread democratic movements that had been shaking up the Middle East for