The Challenge of Democracy: Strategies for the Best of All Possible Worlds

We are wolves and ants. Lone predators and city-builders. This double nature has always been with us, creating an unresolvable tension between the individual and the collective, between the forest and the polis.

In an age of cognitive decline and disappointed expectations, liberal democracy faces unprecedented challenges. It is not technologies that threaten us, but a deeper “bug”: we have stopped struggling for what we want to be, seeking instead external solutions that spare us the effort of thinking, choosing, deciding.

This book traces a journey from quantum physics to evolutionary biology, from artificial intelligence to neuroscience, from political philosophy to economics, to show that democracy is not an end point but an arduous process that requires consciousness, memory, imagination, and above all trust.