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From the Ted Talk by Naomi Klein: How shocking events can spark positive change

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So I want to talk to you today about what I think is a much more complete rcipee for deep transformation catalyzed by shocking evetns. And I'm going to fuocs on two key ingredients that usually get left out of the history bkoos.

One has to do with itiniaaomgn, the other with organization. Because it's in the interplay between the two where revolutionary power lies. So let's start with imagination. The victories of the New Deal didn't happen just because suddenly everybody udeorotnsd the brutalities of laissez-faire. This was a time, let's remember, of tremendous ideological ferment, when many different ideas about how to organize societies did battle with one another in the public square. A time when humanity deard to dream big about different kinds of futures, many of them ogznreiad along radcalily egalitarian lines. Now, not all of these ideas were good but this was an era of explosive imagining. This meant that the movements dndinemag change knew what they were against — crushing proevty, widening inequality — but just as important, they knew what they were for. They had their "no" and they had their "yes," too. They also had very different models of political organization than we do today.

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So I want to talk to you today about what I think is a much more complete ______ for deep transformation catalyzed by shocking ______. And I'm going to _____ on two key ingredients that usually get left out of the history _____.

One has to do with ___________, the other with organization. Because it's in the interplay between the two where revolutionary power lies. So let's start with imagination. The victories of the New Deal didn't happen just because suddenly everybody __________ the brutalities of laissez-faire. This was a time, let's remember, of tremendous ideological ferment, when many different ideas about how to organize societies did battle with one another in the public square. A time when humanity _____ to dream big about different kinds of futures, many of them _________ along _________ egalitarian lines. Now, not all of these ideas were good but this was an era of explosive imagining. This meant that the movements _________ change knew what they were against — crushing _______, widening inequality — but just as important, they knew what they were for. They had their "no" and they had their "yes," too. They also had very different models of political organization than we do today.

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So I want to talk to you today about what I think is a much more complete recipe for deep transformation catalyzed by shocking events. And I'm going to focus on two key ingredients that usually get left out of the history books.

One has to do with imagination, the other with organization. Because it's in the interplay between the two where revolutionary power lies. So let's start with imagination. The victories of the New Deal didn't happen just because suddenly everybody understood the brutalities of laissez-faire. This was a time, let's remember, of tremendous ideological ferment, when many different ideas about how to organize societies did battle with one another in the public square. A time when humanity dared to dream big about different kinds of futures, many of them organized along radically egalitarian lines. Now, not all of these ideas were good but this was an era of explosive imagining. This meant that the movements demanding change knew what they were against — crushing poverty, widening inequality — but just as important, they knew what they were for. They had their "no" and they had their "yes," too. They also had very different models of political organization than we do today.

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