George Packer
speaker
697 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 6 May
George Packer’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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They're nothing that we're really born with.
Democracy in many ways is not natural.
And throughout human history, it's been a blip.
It's been a kind of brief little interlude in long periods of authoritarianism.
And I don't want to think that our little interlude is coming to an end.
But to prevent that, I think we have to practice it.
And how do you practice it?
I don't have a whole map or a...
plan for this i hope someone someone does and some people talk about it a lot but we need to face to face not just on screens and cameras but face to face talk to people who we think we have very little in common with and figure out how we can talk to each other that doesn't mean we like each other or agree with each other it just means the basic recognition of the humanity
of the other is something we've lost.
And it shows every time Trump gets up to say something about Rob Reiner, and that licenses all the other wannabes to try to compete in the moral collapse, as if getting as low as you can is the way
To show that you're on top.
Well, we've gone very far.
If you compare the language we use, the discourse to 10, 15 years ago, there's been a real degradation.
And I think we have to almost start again and recognize that we have a problem and take the 12 steps forward.
that someone should lay out to becoming recovering authoritarians and learn how to be Democrats again.
I am hopeful.
My daughter is in ninth grade and her school has taken the phones away at the start of the day and gives them back at the end.
And that's a new thing.
And I've heard no complaints.
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