Steven Bartlett

And that was just me being affected by the world I live in.

Maybe it did matter that I was married to a politician because some things that you would have noticed in a more distant way affected me personally.

Maybe it was the particular circumstances of being both American and Polish and

seeing a similar pattern of things happening in both places.

Either way, I felt that something important was happening, and I've really been motivated for the last decade to explain it to people and try and understand it.

What would regime change really look like in our countries?

Yes.

What would it feel like to live in a very different kind of society?

How would you feel living in a place where suddenly the values shifted?

They were different.

For better or for worse.

We think, for example, free speech is a value.

And we've been arguing about it here.

What does it mean?

What's hate speech?

How do we measure it?

And so on.

What if you suddenly found yourself waking up one morning in a society where free speech was bad?

You know, where it wasn't, you didn't automatically assume that it was good.

We also have an assumption that there is some kind of meritocracy in our societies, right?