#davidrunciman — Public Fediverse posts
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All countries that claim to practice 'compulsory voting', don't. Because they all offer a 'no confidence' option. Which is, in effect, not voting.
It's a nonsense, and a distraction from meaningful attempts at democratic reform
https://nzpod.co.nz/podcast/past-present-future/fixing-democracy-compulsory-voting
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#podcasts #DavidRunciman #PastPresentFuture #democracy #elections #CompulsoryVoting
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All countries that claim to practice 'compulsory voting', don't. Because they all offer a 'no confidence' option. Which is, in effect, not voting.
It's a nonsense, and a distraction from meaningful attempts at democratic reform
https://nzpod.co.nz/podcast/past-present-future/fixing-democracy-compulsory-voting
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#podcasts #DavidRunciman #PastPresentFuture #democracy #elections #CompulsoryVoting
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"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
https://www.ppfideas.com/episodes
A year later ...
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"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
https://www.ppfideas.com/episodes
A year later ...
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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;
https://www.ppfideas.com/episodes/the-history-of-bad-ideas%3A-polycrisis
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#podcast #PastPresentFuture #HistoryOfBadIdeas #DavidRunciman #polycrisis
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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;
https://www.ppfideas.com/episodes/the-history-of-bad-ideas%3A-polycrisis
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#podcast #PastPresentFuture #HistoryOfBadIdeas #DavidRunciman #polycrisis
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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?"
https://www.ppfideas.com/episodes
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#podcasts #PastPresentFuture #DavidRunciman #AyseZarakol #FrenchRevolution #China
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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?"
https://www.ppfideas.com/episodes
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#podcasts #PastPresentFuture #DavidRunciman #AyseZarakol #FrenchRevolution #China
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Last night I listened to podcaster David Runciman and journalist Helen Lewis talking about Fight Club, and how it holds up 25 years later;
https://www.ppfideas.com/episodes/the-great-political-films%3A-fight-club-w%2F-helen-lewis
The political aspect of the discussion exemplified a common lack of understanding among the political class, about what fascism really is and how it works. One that I also lacked when I first watched the film, about 20 years ago.
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#podcasts #PastPresentFuture #FightClub #DavidRunciman #HelenLewis
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Last night I listened to podcaster David Runciman and journalist Helen Lewis talking about Fight Club, and how it holds up 25 years later;
https://www.ppfideas.com/episodes/the-great-political-films%3A-fight-club-w%2F-helen-lewis
The political aspect of the discussion exemplified a common lack of understanding among the political class, about what fascism really is and how it works. One that I also lacked when I first watched the film, about 20 years ago.
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#podcasts #PastPresentFuture #FightClub #DavidRunciman #HelenLewis
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Just listening to David Runciman and Gary Gerstle discuss the history of televised leadership debates;
I suspect we will look back on 2024 as a watershed year, where the net replacing television as the dominant media. Just as television did with radio.
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#podcasts #PastPresentFuture #HistoryOfBadIdeas #media #television #DavidRunciman #GaryGerstle
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Just listening to David Runciman and Gary Gerstle discuss the history of televised leadership debates;
I suspect we will look back on 2024 as a watershed year, where the net replacing television as the dominant media. Just as television did with radio.
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#podcasts #PastPresentFuture #HistoryOfBadIdeas #media #television #DavidRunciman #GaryGerstle
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I don't like to lead characterising a piece rather than just stating it, but that feels necessary here: the review / analysis I'm linking here is not sympathetic with its subject. It is however excellent, and its subject is, well, significant in today's world, though largely in a negative way.
#DavidRunciman's #PastPresentFuture has been tackling the Great Political Novels for the first part of 2024, and the episode which just dropped addresses every intellectually-stunted permadolescent's favourite book, by A.R.: A.S.
(You've either already guessed or can open the link for the reveal. Kitten pics for the rest of you to avoid a thumbnail spoiler.)
Much of the review covers bits I'm familiar with. The parts I wasn't aware of (and maybe that speaks poorly of me) were the associations with Keynes and Oppenheimer, obvious as Runciman reveals them. And I could add a bunch more on how much Silicon Valley was influenced by this book. Hell, the University Ave., incubator space which both Teh Goog and BookFace came out of was literally emblazoned with a sign reading "Rearden Steel" for much of the 1990s / aughts.
And if you absolutely can't stand this book (and I can't blame you), the rest of the series, the podcast, and others by Runciman ("Talking Politics") are also excellent. Despite the title and Runciman's own background as a historian of politics, it's remarkably free of highly topical current-issue discussion, whilst at the same time illuminating that in ways virtually no other source does.
There are three ad spots, 30s intro & outro and an annoying one spang in the middle of things.
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I don't like to lead characterising a piece rather than just stating it, but that feels necessary here: the review / analysis I'm linking here is not sympathetic with its subject. It is however excellent, and its subject is, well, significant in today's world, though largely in a negative way.
#DavidRunciman's #PastPresentFuture has been tackling the Great Political Novels for the first part of 2024, and the episode which just dropped addresses every intellectually-stunted permadolescent's favourite book, by A.R.: A.S.
(You've either already guessed or can open the link for the reveal. Kitten pics for the rest of you to avoid a thumbnail spoiler.)
Much of the review covers bits I'm familiar with. The parts I wasn't aware of (and maybe that speaks poorly of me) were the associations with Keynes and Oppenheimer, obvious as Runciman reveals them. And I could add a bunch more on how much Silicon Valley was influenced by this book. Hell, the University Ave., incubator space which both Teh Goog and BookFace came out of was literally emblazoned with a sign reading "Rearden Steel" for much of the 1990s / aughts.
And if you absolutely can't stand this book (and I can't blame you), the rest of the series, the podcast, and others by Runciman ("Talking Politics") are also excellent. Despite the title and Runciman's own background as a historian of politics, it's remarkably free of highly topical current-issue discussion, whilst at the same time illuminating that in ways virtually no other source does.
There are three ad spots, 30s intro & outro and an annoying one spang in the middle of things.
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Intrigued? Runciman hosts the Past Present Future podcast;
https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/pastpresentfuture
...and co-hosted Talking Politics from 2015 until its end in 2022.
https://www.talkingpoliticspodcast.com/
#podcasts #DavidRunciman #PastPresentFuture #TalkingPolitics
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Intrigued? Runciman hosts the Past Present Future podcast;
https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/pastpresentfuture
...and co-hosted Talking Politics from 2015 until its end in 2022.
https://www.talkingpoliticspodcast.com/
#podcasts #DavidRunciman #PastPresentFuture #TalkingPolitics
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La nostra proposta è semplice: estendere il diritto di voto a qualsiasi cittadino sia in grado di entrare da solo in una cabina elettorale per tracciare una croce o scrivere un paio di nomi in stampatello!
Vediamo perché questa scelta sarebbe conveniente e, soprattutto, giusta…https://www.informapirata.it/2023/03/28/sinite-parvulos-un-suffragio-veramente-universale-2/
