7 July 2008
The art of democracy
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Why can't we have a nation-why can't we have a world we're proud of? Why can't we stop wringing our hands over poverty, hunger, species domination, genocide, and death from curable disease that we know is all needless? These are some of the questions posed by Frances Moore Lappé. She says, "How do we stop being part of creating a world that we don't want and realize our power to create the world we do want?" She furthers describes what she calls "Living democracy." Lappé says, "[M]y idea of democracy is that it is a living entity that is never-ending. It is a social analog to ecology. It is all about relationship and differentiation and complexity and beauty. And it is away from thinking about democracy as something that is finished. . . . [We must] move away from democracy as something done for us or to us to democracy of what we create." She outlines for us how democracy must be taught as an art.
Program #3248
