Democracy may not exist, but we'll miss it when it's gone

Introduction: Living in the tension

Free to be winners and losers (freedom/equality)

Shouting as one (conflict/consensus)

Reinventing the people (inclusion/exclusion)

Choose this, or else! (coercion/choice)

Is this what democracy looks like? (spontaneity/structure)

A Socratic mob (expertise/mass opinion)

New world order (local/global)

A ruin or a habitation (present/future)

Conclusion: From Founding Fathers to perennial midwives.