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"The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 paved the way for the democratisation of
many eastern European countries and triumphantly ushered in the era of global
liberal democracy that some scholars celebrated as “the end of history”. The
idea was that human political history followed a steady path and that western
liberal democracy was the end point of the evolution of human government.
Unfortunately, events unfolded a little differently.
The last 20 years did not follow a linear arc of progress, let alone marked the
end of history. The growing electoral success of extreme rightwing parties in
many western countries, from France to Finland and from the Netherlands to
Germany, has turned the end of history into the possible end of democracy.
What is prompting so many Europeans to turn away from a political system that
has successfully rebuilt the continent after the second world war and
transformed it into the world’s most prosperous single market?
The reasons are manifold, ranging from economic crises and rising inequality to
the negative impact of social media on political behaviour and breaches of
democratic norms by elites. But there is another driver that is rarely
discussed: the power of personal experience."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
