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		<itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://steady.page/en/cognitive-republic/about" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Cognitive Republic</strong></a> <em>a book-length project written online, in public - a new and scary experience for me, and I hope an exhilarating experience for you. </em>This will be the podcast version. I begins with a blunt claim: unless liberal democracies reinvent themselves, they will be out-competed by populist authoritarian alternatives. </p><p>Not everywhere; not all at once; but steadily, through institutional fatigue, informational disorder, and the seductive simplicity of strongman answers.</p><p><strong><em>The central premise is equally blunt.</em></strong> Democracies that learn—truly learn—are the ones that will endure.</p><p><strong><em>You can subscribe for free email updates here - just click: </em></strong><a href="https://steady.page/en/cognitive-republic/newsletter/sign_up" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong><em>Subscribe to the newsletter</em></strong></a> <strong><em>or better yet, become a member - just click: </em></strong><a href="https://steady.page/en/cognitive-republic/about" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong><em>Become a member</em></strong></a><strong><em> (</em></strong><a href="https://steady.page/en/cognitive-republic/about" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong><em>you can support the modest tip jar, underpinning the mission, or you can go deeper, and get the members-only book reviews and read the Cognitive Republic as a book written in public</em></strong></a><strong>)</strong></p><p><br></p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>]]></itunes:summary>
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			<itunes:summary><![CDATA[<h1>Announcing: The Cognitive Republic</h1><h2>What you can expect</h2><p><strong><em>This is my new home for a new mission:</em></strong>&nbsp;a book-length project written online, in public - a new and scary experience for me, and I hope an exhilarating experience for you - the reader.</p><p>And now available as a podcast - for you - the listener.</p><br><p><a href="https://steady.page/en/cognitive-republic/about" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong><em>Cognitive Republic: Building Societies That Experiment, Learn, and Evolve.</em></strong></a></p><p><strong><em>Reinventing Democracies as Learning, Adaptive, Systems</em></strong></p><br><p><a href="https://steady.page/en/cognitive-republic/about" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong><em>Cognitive Republic&nbsp;</em></strong>started life as a book proposal:</a> I have decided instead to release it here piece-by-piece to test the arguments and to engage in thinking in public.</p><br><p><a href="https://steady.page/en/cognitive-republic/about" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">You can subscribe for regular email updates here - chapter by chapter, as well as lots of bonus content.</a></p><br><p>Liberal democracy does not need more moral rhetoric or further arguments about liberals versus conservatives or big versus small government; these arguments are tedious, care-worn, and fruitless. They are getting us nowhere.&nbsp;<em>We need to move on from this way of doing business.</em></p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>]]></itunes:summary>
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