M | MAJORITY & MASTERY

Episode 5 October 02, 2023 00:54:53
M | MAJORITY & MASTERY
Mutant: Dialogues at the End of Democracy
M | MAJORITY & MASTERY

Oct 02 2023 | 00:54:53

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Show Notes

At the heart of the modern democratic contract is the principle — and the faith — that the majority will decide for everyone. 

But it is in fact this majority — neither simply a numerical preponderance, nor an ideology — that constitutes the greatest risk of democracy in our time; a moral swerve that is not simply mappable to a caste or economic structure. Rather, it is a complex combination of motivations and desires tethered equally to old conformisms and emerging markets that believes — if it believes in anything at all — in one primary political value. Obedience.

In this episode, Mutant travels this vanishing line between the democratic majority and this new majoritarian coalition, to deconstruct its abiding myth: that it is nonviolent.

Image courtesy: Tom Vattakuzhy

 

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