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From the Ted Talk by Pia Mancini: How to upgrade democracy for the Internet era
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And rightly so. But in order to be part of this conversation, we need to know what we want to do next, because political action is being able to move from agitation to construction. My generation has been incredibly good at using new networks and technologies to organize protests, protests that were able to successfully impose agendas, roll back extremely pernicious lgtoailsein, and even overthrow authoritarian governments. And we should be immensely proud of this. But, we also must admit that we haven't been good at using those same nwrtkoes and technologies to sslseuuclcfy articulate an alternative to what we're seeing and find the consensus and build the alliances that are needed
Open Cloze
they need to take to the streets in _____ to be _____. To me, it seems like the 18th-century slogan that was the basis for the formation of our modern democracies, "No taxation without representation," can now be _______ to "No representation without a ____________." We want our seat at the table.
And rightly so. But in order to be part of this conversation, we need to know what we want to do next, because political action is being able to move from agitation to construction. My generation has been incredibly good at using new networks and technologies to organize protests, protests that were able to successfully impose agendas, roll back extremely pernicious ___________, and even overthrow authoritarian governments. And we should be immensely proud of this. But, we also must admit that we haven't been good at using those same ________ and technologies to ____________ articulate an alternative to what we're seeing and find the consensus and build the alliances that are needed
Solution
- conversation
- order
- successfully
- updated
- heard
- legislation
- networks
Original Text
they need to take to the streets in order to be heard. To me, it seems like the 18th-century slogan that was the basis for the formation of our modern democracies, "No taxation without representation," can now be updated to "No representation without a conversation." We want our seat at the table.
And rightly so. But in order to be part of this conversation, we need to know what we want to do next, because political action is being able to move from agitation to construction. My generation has been incredibly good at using new networks and technologies to organize protests, protests that were able to successfully impose agendas, roll back extremely pernicious legislation, and even overthrow authoritarian governments. And we should be immensely proud of this. But, we also must admit that we haven't been good at using those same networks and technologies to successfully articulate an alternative to what we're seeing and find the consensus and build the alliances that are needed
Frequently Occurring Word Combinations
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| information technology |
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| political system |
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| elected representatives |
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| political parties |
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| buenos aires |
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| citizens decided |
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Important Words
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