common urgency の欠如が大規模圏では障害:被災実感が薄い地域では「次世代の課題」に見え、共通の緊急性ではないため動きが鈍る。(SayIt)
権威主義は“共有の緊急性”を毀損:権威主義は事実へのアクセスを妨げ(例:李文亮医師の警告が届かず)、危機対応で「自由の一部を犠牲に」と権威主義を礼賛する発想を招く。社会が権威主義化するたびに、革新や事実が**目減り(“literally cut by 10 percent”)**し、共有の緊急性の形成が削がれる。(SayIt)
View Section: 2021-04-06 Interview with Arwa Mahdawi
shared / common urgency(共有の緊急性)
>Audrey Tang
> In Taiwan though, we found that people who are around 16 or 17 years old, as well as people who are around 70 years old, they are the most active both on the citizens’ initiative to counter climate change and also perhaps on the time available to them to dedicate themselves to this effort. Intergenerational solidarity is key. It’s very important in making this work.
> Also, shared urgency. Now that we are post pandemic here in Taiwan, and hopefully soon post pandemic in the US, we are now seeing how effective humankind could be if we treat something as a global shared urgency. It actually got solved in record time, the vaccination and everything.
権威主義と(共有の)緊急性の関係
Arwa Mahdawi
アルワ・マフダウィ
When you look at the next 10 years, what do you think the major challenges are the world needs to face?
今後10年を見据えると、世界が直面すべき大きな課題は何だと思いますか?
Audrey Tang
オードリー・タン
One of the major challenge is that people still, more so around this piece of this corner of Earth than your corner of the Earth, (laughs) in our corner of the Earth, there still are people who glorify and valorize authoritarianism, even though that we all understand that authoritarianism prevented easy access to journalistic facts.
For example, Dr. Li Wenliang’s message about there’s COVID in the first place didn’t reach people in Wuhan at all because of authoritarianism and lack of press freedom. He literally save everyone in Taiwan but not everyone in Wuhan.
Even with such a sharp contrast, we still get people in nearby jurisdictions valorize authoritarianism, calling that it’s inevitable that we need to sacrifice a little bit of democracy, freedom of the press, and so on, in order to fight the pandemic, fight the disinformation crisis.
There’s even lines of thought that said, “This is the only way to combat climate crisis, is to switch to central planned authoritarian infrastructure work.” (laughs)
One of the main challenge is that the democratized jurisdictions, if they get into this thought of authoritarianism is inevitable when faced with a climate or other crisis, then the actual innovations that could happen, the actual facts that could remind people how to tackle this with shared urgency is lost or at least decimated.
Literally cut by 10 percent (laughs) every time the society got more authoritarian. This is structurally in our corner of the world that the most pressing challenge, the declining of trust on the democratic institutions.