Comments by "bj0rn" (@TheLivirus) on "Is Democracy Doomed? The Global Fight for Our Future | Timothy Snyder | TED" video.

This seemed like a great opportunity for introspection. Sadly it turned mostly into evasive criticism of "them" and how we need to fix them. Next talk should be about the decline of TED and whether it is beyond saving.
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According to Timothy, it is a mistake to think democracy is a thing that is promoted or undermined by greater forces, such as capitalism or inequality. He argues that it is rather an attitude or practice that individuals must uphold. Then he says democracy cannot exist in a petroleum driven world. Isn't this a huge contradiction, or am I missing something?
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@paulrevere47 I mean I get it. A condition for peace/collaboration is that the cake is growing. If the cake is shrinking, there is more incentive to take from one another, leading to conflict and violence. Global warming may potentially lead to scarcity of resources such as reduced landmass, food shortage, more destruction by natural disasters, etc. But this argument seems to contradict his earlier statement that democracy does not reply in external conditions but comes from within individuals.
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