<div dir="ltr">Thanks Art, was a very powerful webinar will be interesting to discuss on Saturday. Also loved the moving video of Puck a beautiful soul.<div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><font size="2">Greg</font></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 1:30 PM Arthur Blomme via craic <<a href="mailto:craic@lists.integralshift.ca">craic@lists.integralshift.ca</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p>I am listening to the panel now. below are two links to the
panel discussion on our Fragile democracy. <br>
</p>
<p><a href="https://www.lumenchristi.org/event/2021/03/fragile-democracy-technocratic-takeover-popular-renewal" target="_blank"><br>
</a></p>
<p><a href="https://www.lumenchristi.org/event/2021/03/fragile-democracy-technocratic-takeover-popular-renewal" target="_blank">https://www.lumenchristi.org/event/2021/03/fragile-democracy-technocratic-takeover-popular-renewal</a><br>
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<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ax_982MZ-wg&t=11s" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ax_982MZ-wg&t=11s</a><br>
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<p>Live Well</p>
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<p>Art<br>
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<div>On 3/13/21 7:53 a.m., Arthur Blomme
wrote:<br>
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<p> I believe that this is a very timely event dealing with one of
the most important issues of our time. This could be a focal
point for a renewed consensus and focus for our community. Like
Laudato Si it identifies the evil of a Technocratic takeover.
It is at the same time as or a half hour after our next saturday
zoom meeting. I was wondering if we could discuss this topic
following the event in a zoom meeting next Saturday.</p>
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<div style="text-align:center" align="center"><span style="color:rgb(241,229,199)">Pepperdine University/Nova Forum</span></div>
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<div><span>We
are
experiencing a
crisis of
democracy more
powerful than
anything seen
in a
generation:
inequality
continues at a
galloping
pace; policing
is
increasingly
racialized and
militarized;
political
decision-making
appears remote
and divorced
from the lives
of ordinary
people.</span></div>
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<div><span>This
panel
discussion—including
renowned
philosopher
Charles
Taylor--will
consider
sources and
solutions to
the present
crisis of
democracy by
drawing on two
recent books:<span> </span></span><span>Reconstructing
Democracy</span><span><span> </span>by Charles Taylor, Patrizia Nanz,
and Madeleine
Beaubien
Taylor and<span> </span></span><span>We
Built Reality</span><span><span> </span>by Jason Blakely. </span></div>
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<div><span>Both
works identify
within our
political and
cultural
crisis the
loss of
democratic
participation
and the rise
of top-down
technocratic,
managerial
rule.</span></div>
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Taylor</span><span style="font-size:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-weight:bold"> </span><span style="font-size:16px">is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at McGill
University.
Although his
work has
covered a
great breadth
of subjects,
he is perhaps
best known for
his
contributions
to political
and moral
theory. Among
his many
authored books
are </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-style:italic">A Secular Age</span><span style="font-size:16px"> (2007), </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-style:italic">Sources
of the Self:
the Making of
the Modern
Identity</span><span style="font-size:16px"> (1989), and </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-style:italic">The
Ethics of
Authenticity</span><span style="font-size:16px">(1991). He has received a litany of awards
and
recognitions
for his body
of work,
including the
Ratzinger
Prize (2019),
the Berggruen
Prize (2016),
the Kluge
Prize (2015),
the Kyoto
Prize (2008),
and the
Templeton
Prize (2007).</span></div>
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Nanz</span><span style="font-size:16px;color:rgb(51,51,51)"> </span><span style="font-size:16px">is
Vice President
of the German
Federal Office
for the Safety
of Nuclear
Waste
Management,
professor at
the Faculty of
Economics and
Social
Sciences at
the University
of Potsdam and
Director of
the
German-French
Forum for the
Future. From
2016 until
2021, she was
Scientific
Director at
the Institute
for Advanced
Sustainability
Studies in
Potsdam,
Germany.
Previously,
she was
professor for
political
theory at the
University of
Bremen. In her
work, she is
exploring the
future of
democracy,
especially the
challenges
connected to
open
government,
public
administration
and citizen
participation. </span></div>
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<div style="text-align:justify" align="justify"><span style="color:rgb(179,35,23);font-weight:bold">Jason Blakely</span><span> </span><span>is
an associate
professor of
political
science at
Pepperdine
University and
a Senior
Fellow at the
Nova Forum for
Catholic
Thought. His
expertise is
in political
philosophy and
hermeneutics.
He is the
author of<span> </span></span><span style="font-style:italic">We
Built Reality:
How Social
Science
Infiltrated
Culture,
Politics, and
Power</span><span>(Oxford,
2020) and<span> </span></span><span style="font-style:italic">Alasdair
MacIntyre,
Charles
Taylor, and
the Demise of
Naturalism<span> </span></span><span>(Notre Dame, 2016).
He also
co-authored</span><span style="font-style:italic"><span> </span>Interpretive
Social Science<span> </span></span><span>(Oxford, 2018) with
Mark Bevir.
Blakely's work
has also
appeared in
top scholarly
journals as
well as
popular venues
like the<span> </span></span><span style="font-style:italic">Atlantic</span><span><span> </span>and<span> </span></span><span style="font-style:italic">Commonweal</span><span>.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align:justify" align="justify"><span style="color:rgb(179,35,23);font-weight:bold">Fr. Patrick Gilger, S.J.</span><span> </span><span>is completing his doctorate
at the New
School for
Social
Research in
New York City.
He will join
the sociology
faculty at
Loyola
University
Chicago this
coming fall,
and is
contributing
editor for
culture at<span> </span></span><span style="font-style:italic">America
Media</span><span>.</span></div>
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