• Renneder@sh.itjust.worksOPM
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    6 months ago

    AI: The article discusses the crisis of democracy and the uncertainty of the future in the modern world.

    • White views the future as a political idea that has passed through various historical stages.

    • He views rational calculation as a useful case study, but notes its limitations.

    • White explains that belief in the stability of people’s preferences underestimates the value of the political process to change them.

    • It suggests reimagining the future and emphasizes the importance of political imagination.

    • White diagnoses Western democracy as a system that has exhausted the political imagination.

    • He discusses the cultural factors that have caused the depletion of political imagination.

    • The vanishing future is the most important element of the current crisis of democracy, but overcoming it requires not only strengthening democracy, but also asking the right questions.