What is a democracy? In this week’s episode of WITHPod, filmmaker astradisastra discusses her new documentary ‘What is Democracy?’ with chrislhayes, including what is wanted out of democratic rule. Listen and full transcript:
Someone had posted this on Twitter. It's like a map of the red counties and blue counties, being likebecause there's a lot of red in it because, like, Wyoming has not many people but a lot of land. And a lot of people responded by making jokes about, like, you know,But land does vote. I mean, land literally does vote in our current system. It votes for president and votes for Senate.
This question is actually a question that goes all the way back to the first theorist of democracy, Plato. And it's not an accident, because the founders read the Greeks a lot and relied on them a lot.
No, no, no, no. That has not happened. In fact, lots of countries have come up with new models that are not liberal democracies but are thriving in their own way. China is the most obvious. To talk about what we mean when we say the word — the most basic word, the word that's at the foundation of our system of government, a word that I think we all have fairly warm feelings towards, although not certain anti-democratic elements at the right: What is"democracy"? And Astra is such a fascinating, unique, eccentric, brilliant person with a totally distinct career in which she's been a writer, and she's been a filmmaker, and she's been an essayist, and...
ASTRA TAYLOR: It's actually like the title you would pick if you want to fail as a filmmaker in this world, I think, right? If you're like,
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