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Making Sense with Sam Harris · July 19, 2024 · 80m
#376 — How Democracies Fail
Anne Applebaum on modern autocracy. Her book Autocracy, Inc. reveals how authoritarian regimes now cooperate as a network — sharing surveillance technology, financial tools, and propaganda techniques across borders.
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Applebaum: studying how democracies died in Poland, Hungary, and Venezuela taught her to recognize the same patterns in America. History is the best mentor for recognizing institutional decay.
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Applebaum: in every country where democracy fell, there were people who saw it coming but stayed silent. Courage atrophies without use. The people who resist are the ones who've been practicing dissent all along.
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