Hélène Landemore

Um, but this, this proposal, it, it sometimes gets called lottocracy.

Um, it's been defended recently by, uh, philosopher Alexander Guerrero and, um, political scientist Helen Landemore, um, and the basic idea is this.

You do away with elections.

You don't have people voting for representatives.

To have a high trust country, to have a high trust society, you have to expose yourself to risk.

I don't know how many of you know Helene Landemore's work.

She does a lot of work on civic assemblies and citizen assemblies.

She'll be speaking at the conference as well, and she'll be speaking about her work on civic love, exactly what you're talking about, as will Eva Illouz, the French sociologist of emotions, talking about how do we think about an idea of civic love in exactly the way you do.