Getting set up for @danhind talk at #headstrongclub. Live tweets to follow...- Tom Paine and Common Sense referenced first thing. @danhind knows how to win over an audience... #headstrongclub
- The success of Paine's Common Sense was to make the American republic thinkable. What do we need to make thinkable? #headstrongclub
- King George was replaced by King Market, and then by King Public Service #headstrongclub
- In 1979 we saw the overthrow of King Public Service & the rise of King Market II #headstrongclub
- Paine was too optimistic to think that universal suffrage would lead to rational government. #headstrongclub
- Would have been hard for most people in 1998-2008 to understand what was happening in the markets #headstrongclub
- We should give up the idea that we can be ruled by self-regulating markets or world-regulating public servants. #headstrongclub
- We should give up the idea that we can be ruled by self-regulating markets or world-regulating public servants. #headstrongclub
- Nothing should be beyond the realm of politics. #headstrongclub
- Nothing should be beyond the realm of politics. #headstrongclub
- How can we assert our public status - let's learn the lessons of #occupy #headstrongclub
- How can we assert our public status - let's learn the lessons of #occupy #headstrongclub
- #occupy was groups insisting on their right and responsibility to take control of their space. #headstrongclub
- #occupy was groups insisting on their right and responsibility to take control of their space. #headstrongclub
- #occupy created a (transient, fragile, besieged) public, but still an achievement and a lesson #headstrongclub
- Meetings in rooms above pubs are important (hear hear) #headstrongclub
- I want to talk about the constitutional reform beyond Constitutional Reform says @danhind #headstrongclub
- We need to be aware that Parly constituencies are the key democratic spaces #headstrongclub
- 1t thing @danhind would argue for is publics that assemble within clearly recognised public boundaries (e.g. constituencies) #headstrongclub
- Politics is great at imitating public concerns and reframing them within the standard political dialogue. #headstrongclub
- A maximal programme of republican reform has to cover the media system. #headstrongclub
- (Dan Hind's book that he's referring to: http://ow.ly/e4KQN #HeHeadstrongClub
- Paine's world was a patchwork of largely self-governing towns #HeadstrongClub
- There needs to be meaningful democratic control over public media, the BBC included #HeadstrongClub
Common Sense, #Occupy and Liberty
@danhind at the Headstrong Club, Lewes
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