Episode 5.25: Calling something “Democracy” doesn’t establish it as such. Democracy must be created.

Things do not exist because we can give them names. Nor does the fact that we have a name for something mean that it is possible. In order to establish democracy we have to live collectively in ways that establish it and so create it out of our experiments in life. It does not come from some theoretical definition or some eternal realm any more than it grows on trees to be plucked by passers-by.