Political parties are transforming judicial appointments into partisan weapons, actively eroding long-standing democratic safeguards. With courts becoming ideologically predictable and systems easily manipulated, basic democratic norms are increasingly at risk.

You believe in shared rules, but what happens when politicians ignore them? We are seeing a new crisis of democratic norms.
Can our leaders save us? The shocking answer is NO.

Find out why the defence of democracy must be taken off the politicians and given back the people!

We think of public goods as roads and bridges. But what if the most important public good today is information? This system is being compromised, and it's causing failures across our society. This is the pattern we must recognise.

The conversations around The Shared Centre is growing and we’d love for you to grow with us! 🌿
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Soldiers in World War I invented secret codes of cooperation.
They would not shoot at certain times, and a strange kind of chivalry grew in the middle of the trenches. By thinking about their own self-interest and that of the enemy, they found a way to entangle them.../

The fourth video in The Shared Centre series launched today, and in it, Nicholas Gruen explores how we can rebuild the art of conversation and the benefits it could bring to civil society.
Conversations build our lives.../
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Is life a competition or a team game? 🎾 The truth is, it’s both & when self-interest takes over, everything breaks down. From politics to academia, we’ve lost the balance. To fix our institutions, we need to rebuild trust and put cooperation back at the centre.
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Why do we turn democracy into endless conflict?

In this clip Nicholas Gruen explains how politics is not only about our differences but also about our shared community.

We face huge questions, like war, poverty, and marriage rights...
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Our institutions only work when people honour their obligations and play fair. But today, they are being hijacked for the benefit of insiders, becoming unfair and dysfunctional. Lies, disinformation, and culture wars tearing our shared values apart.

The Shared Centre, a new YouTube series by @ngruen.bsky.social with original music by Brian Eno, launches in 4 days time, follow to find out more.
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Sometimes policy & politics throw the baby out with the bathwater. So how can democracy's best parts build a better world? Join @ngruen.bsky.social on his YouTube series “The Shared Centre, Awakening Our Better Angels” to explore how citizens assemblies can displace systems that divide us.

Our institutions help us work together by entangling us in webs of mutual obligation.
They orchestrate our superpower: our deep desire to do our bit so that others do the same for us.
They awaken what Abraham Lincoln called "The Better Angels of our nature"
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The Shared Centre, a new YouTube series by @ngruen.bsky.social , with original music by Brian Eno, launches in 4 days time, follow to find out more.

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Why do we so often complain that our leaders are just in it for themselves?

We set it up that way.

In #thesharedcentre YouTube series launching on Thursday 9th October @ngruen.bsky.social explores how we can build better institutions.

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Why has @ngruen.bsky.social created The Shared Centre?

Because current democratic system ignore our dual nature - we strive to serve our own interest but we also want to do our bit.

And we feel great when others reciprocate.

The Shared Centre will see @ngruen.bsky.social releasing a book-sized idea explained in 20 bite-sized videos, exploring how we can rebuild democracy and leadership around new institutional DNA.

Follow us as we prepare to launch!
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New ideas that could change the way you think.

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