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			<description><![CDATA[<p>This episode is the complete reading of my book chapter, <em>&#39;</em><strong><em>A democracy unable to learn cannot endure&#39;, </em></strong>where I ask (and tentatively answer) the question <strong><em> &#39;Why do democracies keep making the same mistakes—and what would it take for them to learn?&#39;</em></strong></p><p>In this hour-long edition of Cognitive Republic, I explore how democracies can learn from experience, recognise failure and change course—and why their survival may depend on getting better at it.</p><p>This episode brings the earlier releases together in one long listen. Start here if you’re new to Cognitive Republic, or settle in to hear the argument in one sitting.</p><p>In future episodes, the <em>Cognitive Republic</em> asks how democracies can notice what is happening, remember what they have learned, judge well and correct course. From there, the podcast ranges across the meeting of brain and world: conversation and memory, information and power, and the forces that shape how we see, think and act together—including cognitive warfare. The book-length project, written in public, provides the spine; each episode can follow a question into the wider terrain where minds, societies and power meet.</p><br><p><strong>What should I take up in a future episode?</strong> What has an institution failed to learn? Where have you seen it change course? Send me a question by replying to a <em>Cognitive Republic</em> email or messaging me on <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/shanewriter.bsky.social" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Bluesky</a>. Your questions will help shape the running order.</p><ul><li><a href="https://steady.page/en/cognitive-republic/newsletter/sign_up" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Get free </a><em><a href="https://steady.page/en/cognitive-republic/newsletter/sign_up" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Cognitive Republic</a></em><a href="https://steady.page/en/cognitive-republic/newsletter/sign_up" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> updates</a></li><li><a href="https://steady.page/en/cognitive-republic/about" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Become a member and read the book as it develops</a></li><li><a href="https://shaneomarawriter.com/pricing/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Explore and buy my books</a></li><li><a href="https://www.brainpizza.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Read </a><em><a href="https://www.brainpizza.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Brain Pizza</a></em></li></ul><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>]]></description>
			<itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p>This episode is the complete reading of my book chapter, <em>&#39;</em><strong><em>A democracy unable to learn cannot endure&#39;, </em></strong>where I ask (and tentatively answer) the question <strong><em> &#39;Why do democracies keep making the same mistakes—and what would it take for them to learn?&#39;</em></strong></p><p>In this hour-long edition of Cognitive Republic, I explore how democracies can learn from experience, recognise failure and change course—and why their survival may depend on getting better at it.</p><p>This episode brings the earlier releases together in one long listen. Start here if you’re new to Cognitive Republic, or settle in to hear the argument in one sitting.</p><p>In future episodes, the <em>Cognitive Republic</em> asks how democracies can notice what is happening, remember what they have learned, judge well and correct course. From there, the podcast ranges across the meeting of brain and world: conversation and memory, information and power, and the forces that shape how we see, think and act together—including cognitive warfare. The book-length project, written in public, provides the spine; each episode can follow a question into the wider terrain where minds, societies and power meet.</p><br><p><strong>What should I take up in a future episode?</strong> What has an institution failed to learn? Where have you seen it change course? Send me a question by replying to a <em>Cognitive Republic</em> email or messaging me on <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/shanewriter.bsky.social" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Bluesky</a>. Your questions will help shape the running order.</p><ul><li><a href="https://steady.page/en/cognitive-republic/newsletter/sign_up" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Get free </a><em><a href="https://steady.page/en/cognitive-republic/newsletter/sign_up" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Cognitive Republic</a></em><a href="https://steady.page/en/cognitive-republic/newsletter/sign_up" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> updates</a></li><li><a href="https://steady.page/en/cognitive-republic/about" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Become a member and read the book as it develops</a></li><li><a href="https://shaneomarawriter.com/pricing/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Explore and buy my books</a></li><li><a href="https://www.brainpizza.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Read </a><em><a href="https://www.brainpizza.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Brain Pizza</a></em></li></ul><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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			<title>The Cognitive Republic: A democracy unable to learn cannot endure (part 3)</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p><strong>Part three of my reading of my chapter: &quot;A democracy unable to learn cannot endure&quot; (you can access the print version in pdf or epub forms by (paid) subscribing to one of newsletters below).</strong></p><p><strong><em>Cognitive Republic</em> </strong>asks how democracies can notice what is happening, remember what they have learned, judge well and correct course. From there, the podcast ranges across the meeting of brain and world: conversation and memory, information and power, and the forces that shape how we see, think and act together—including cognitive warfare. The book-length project, written in public, provides the spine; each episode can follow a question into the wider terrain where minds, societies and power meet.</p><p><strong>What should I take up in a future episode?</strong> What has an institution failed to learn? Where have you seen it change course? Send me a question by replying to a <em>Cognitive Republic</em> email or messaging me on <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/shanewriter.bsky.social" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Bluesky</a>. Your questions will help shape the running order.</p><ul><li><a href="https://steady.page/en/cognitive-republic/newsletter/sign_up" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Get free </a><em><a href="https://steady.page/en/cognitive-republic/newsletter/sign_up" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Cognitive Republic updates</a></em></li><li><a href="https://steady.page/en/cognitive-republic/about" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Become a member and read the book as it develops</a></li><li><a href="https://shaneomarawriter.com/pricing/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Explore and buy my books</a></li></ul><p><a href="https://www.brainpizza.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Read </a><em><a href="https://www.brainpizza.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Brain Pizza</a></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>]]></description>
			<itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p><strong>Part three of my reading of my chapter: &quot;A democracy unable to learn cannot endure&quot; (you can access the print version in pdf or epub forms by (paid) subscribing to one of newsletters below).</strong></p><p><strong><em>Cognitive Republic</em> </strong>asks how democracies can notice what is happening, remember what they have learned, judge well and correct course. From there, the podcast ranges across the meeting of brain and world: conversation and memory, information and power, and the forces that shape how we see, think and act together—including cognitive warfare. The book-length project, written in public, provides the spine; each episode can follow a question into the wider terrain where minds, societies and power meet.</p><p><strong>What should I take up in a future episode?</strong> What has an institution failed to learn? Where have you seen it change course? Send me a question by replying to a <em>Cognitive Republic</em> email or messaging me on <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/shanewriter.bsky.social" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Bluesky</a>. Your questions will help shape the running order.</p><ul><li><a href="https://steady.page/en/cognitive-republic/newsletter/sign_up" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Get free </a><em><a href="https://steady.page/en/cognitive-republic/newsletter/sign_up" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Cognitive Republic updates</a></em></li><li><a href="https://steady.page/en/cognitive-republic/about" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Become a member and read the book as it develops</a></li><li><a href="https://shaneomarawriter.com/pricing/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Explore and buy my books</a></li></ul><p><a href="https://www.brainpizza.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Read </a><em><a href="https://www.brainpizza.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Brain Pizza</a></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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			<title>The Cognitive Republic: A democracy unable to learn cannot endure (part 2)</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[<p><strong>Here’s the second part podcast of my book chapter</strong> ‘<strong><em>A democracy unable to learn cannot endure</em>’ - more parts will follow in the future. </strong></p><p><strong><a href="https://steady.page/en/cognitive-republic/about" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">My book written in public is available here (newsletter sign-up).</a></strong></p><p><strong>You can find me on <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/shanewriter.bsky.social" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Bluesky</a>.</strong></p><p><a href="https://shaneomarawriter.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">My website is here.</a></p><p><a href="https://www.brainpizza.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">My other newsletter is here.</a></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>]]></description>
			<itunes:summary><![CDATA[<p><strong>Here’s the second part podcast of my book chapter</strong> ‘<strong><em>A democracy unable to learn cannot endure</em>’ - more parts will follow in the future. </strong></p><p><strong><a href="https://steady.page/en/cognitive-republic/about" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">My book written in public is available here (newsletter sign-up).</a></strong></p><p><strong>You can find me on <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/shanewriter.bsky.social" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Bluesky</a>.</strong></p><p><a href="https://shaneomarawriter.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">My website is here.</a></p><p><a href="https://www.brainpizza.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">My other newsletter is here.</a></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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			<title>Announcing: The Cognitive Republic</title>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2026 18:55:31 GMT</pubDate>
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			<description><![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>]]></description>
			<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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