36 years ago, my parents let iran for germany in search of the fall of the berlin wall and the people overcome with joy and excitement as still a defining memory of our new home. For me, it was an incredibly beautiful moment. All those people, some of them for the 1st time in their lives, truly felt free today. Freedom, at least in wealthy countries, is something we almost take for granted. We can choose how we want to live. For most people around the world, thats just a dream. And its under threatened now in the west to the my name is peggy adoni. And im an actor in this film, im going on a journey to ask, what does freedom mean in the 21st century . The over 3 centuries ago, the age of enlightenment began, bringing with the progress, reese and human rights. Today the, the treatments or surgery. Do we need a new enlightenment . The 21st century, the its monday. Morning onset. In hamburg. For 3 years, ive played a Police Investigator in a crime series. I used to be a kind of go to person for anything foreign and exotic. But now that the Film Industry has caught on germany is a country of immigrants. I can practically pick and choose my roles. During the french revolution, one woman defied convention and chose her own destiny. She came from humble beginnings, bone. Marie goose. She was the daughter of a put you under washable. And 1765. At the age of 17. She was married to a restaurant to who died soon off to it. Some said it was the noble lot of the men really to be her true father, the process of paris, where she took the name long to googe. Although an educated law was beautiful spirited and intelligent, which both the access to the cellphones and to people of influence. She became a fixture in high society, and she began to pin risings that held up a new way to the fashionable, loopy scene. Pre revolutionary elite slipped up by discussions of resolution. She became a social reformer activist for womens rights. Its odd that i dont know anything about on degrees. More than 200 years ago, she insisted women could enjoy every freedom at a time when that was to do, did her life and her ideas end up shipping my own life, my own pass. If you look at the time of enlightenment and some of the she talk latest, you know, when i look at that as a woman and as a woman of color, im surprised when i see men and more men and more men. A large majority of the people in this weather are not free. So im very, very skeptical about that notion of freedom, especially as people forget it by the worst, each and every human being has a dignity that cannot be taken away. This is a fundamental idea of the enlightenment. On the eve of the french revolution, the people were calling for freedom equality and for tennessee. This was more than a bridge rise. The demands would go on to fundamentally reshape society alone to googe attended meetings. But the shock about club became a political activist in the past as addressed to queen re unto this, she bemoaned the traditional role of women. In another passage, she encouraged the king to abdicate outspoken ent opinionated. She became more vehement as the resolution progressed. It was this refusal to be silent, but unfortunately helps you a site im going to live and on where my journey begins. Our world is an upheaval, just like it was during the french revolution. And like the small country in the middle east, lebanon was once a flourishing place, which some called the switzerland of the middle east. They route with a financial hub, elegant and cosmopolitan. Then came the civil war. Today there are power outages, almost every day. Food prices are storing, and most people live in desperate poverty. And as if that werent enough, a warehouse in the Harbor HoldingAmmonium Nitrate exploded, leaving much of a city in ruins. The lebanon has one of the most in equal distributions of wealth in the world. And society is being torn apart. Something has to, to the, the, in the french revolution, people demanded liberty, equality, and brotherhood. Because those ideas are intertwined. If you demand freedom, youre also demanding fairness. But in a country like 11 and where do you even begin the heavy blue bush this the whole game here, the total in problem term, just like the term freedom is hard to define who she is, that theyve just this should guide all public action to be today, sort of my goal must be to achieve social harmony with at least a minimum level of contentment. For on the golf course, you almost satisfaction. I think we really need to marry a liberal of the social democratic conception of freedom. None of those freedoms are worth anything. If you dont have the material means to realize in a place like this, where the state is so weak, you need strong individuals to push for change. Like do you mind had that . She was the 1st person to publish an erotic magazine in the air of world and has received countless death trends. She also founded the Freedom Center in bay route. The jumanda is a journalist, author, and tv how large room this is, where the main meeting. Shes also one of the most influential women in the airport. I have the chairs here, this online. Now. This is the wow. Yeah. And this is wonder woman because my 2 sons think i look like her so they keep sending me stuff. So what does the assurance say here . It says our evolution is if someone, if its something that you have to wake up every day, advice for me, i could do nothing without this freedom. The freedom to think of the way i want to think the freedom to write whatever i want to write. And obviously the freedom to be the person i want to be. I have to say 11 on were lucky with the weather and its also a beautiful area. Yes it is. Do you feel safe in this area to sleep in the sense you know, when your, when they want to hurt you know, area say you have to know that my 1st crazy project was this magazine i used to do called just side and its uh and erotic magazine was arts and culture about the body in arabic and published by a woman and love and on. And thats when all the threats really horrible threats start to, to, to arrive and that, and thats, thats was like a turning point in my life because i thought im not gonna let myself be intimidated. And im gonna just ignore it and keep moving forward. And you know what i learned, you start to become intimidating when you do this because they think, how come shes not scared . Whats her secret . And i have no 6, this is it. And ive been lucky so far. So mazda supplement a despite the threats, jumanda continues to speak out right and publish feminist text me, its about still, all sudden that applies to women of friends. They joined the resolution, the alarm, the goals wanted runs, not just a voice. Women, she insisted, should have the right to vote, hold Public Office own prophecy, and be financially independent when the new National Assembly issued the declaration of the rights of man and citizens, women received no mention. Orlando, patients was actually named in shop and forced for language. She turned 17 articles of the declaration of the rights of man to the declaration of the rights of women, female citizen. She then sent it to the National Assembly and to queen marie antoinette. Article one woman is full and free and remains equal to man. In right. Classical 10 woman has the right to mount the scaffold, so she should have to ride equally to mount the pope. 2 years later, this sentence would prove prophetic. Defiance come for them to go. Just trying to free to is still relevant today. Sting me at the findings to equal pay, fitness or walk to equal respect. So women, this is the phone call. Society hired is a desire to johnston and be rude. Germano had organized the 1st feminism festival in the protected space, so they also do full saying there was plenty to talk about one more, but i didnt know we didnt was that, you know, most of the benefit when i suggested a public floor on the topic of why we need to speak with matt and about the seminar struggles and the lease. Many people are posted at 1st and i need the model of what the government is freedom and the legal rights that they are owed. And thats not only about the feminist struggle, its about the dignity of women, men, and all people is cut off. And as he said, you call yourself an angry ss or a feminist. Yeah, what does this mean . It means a lot of trouble. How come this became such a the past in your life . We treated differently as it goes. I grew up in a very conservative family. But ever since i was led to the one thing save me from the environment where i grew up, which was the civil war, the conservative family, the factory article society, the catholic school. And thats was really tough. What saves me war, my readings and books look safe my life. They changed me. I knew that there was Something Else out there and that i deserved it. What do you think . Why is the female body so mystified . So to move, i think because its a source of power, of unlimited power, its a, its a body that gives life and this is a big issue. Why is that body such such an obsession in my culture . Why should i be shane . Does it or hide it, or protect it from the male intruder and save it for my husbands sex as one of the most google words in arabic, all we all know that, but then again, if you want to talk about this topic, youre consider uh at best goals as courageous um, as far as the horn, no, lot of the front of me said power women depicted in the media to minor invited the association of lebanese women in journalism to her festival. You know, i often wonder if the way that we approach feminist topics helps bring about change their mind. But in the media, all we ever see all the same traditional roles for women and to manage the mother who tends to everyones needs to you never seen the workforce in politics or outside taking part in the struggle for freedom. We only see the women who get up to the Sunflower Seeds and 6 about the people is the you have a to, to win your risk, which is another to bu, i have like 7 talk to us, but i can not to all of them to, to the, this is the word free them and an arabic. So i got this a long time ago. Freedom has been, has always been like the guiding lights for me. This is the one thing that i can not to be a tolerance with for decides whether you are free or not. You only you thats you up to you to decide how many people are not free, but they do not realize that you need awareness. We are born with a huge, you know, back cuz our name, our nationality, our religion, even the political views of our parents. And so many other things. And many people live their lives without deciding whether this, that they have inherited works for them or not. The Self Determination is the key to freedom and for people like to mano, its not something that just happens. But something that requires a conscious decision. Anyone who makes that decision over and over again probably has more freedom than the powerful and privileged to because they never had to fight for their freedom the tonight and be rude. I ended up at a concert by the rapper da far once again. The topic is politics and the abuse of power in lebanon. Arch is the safety valve thats probably keeping society from exploding in the, in the, the i think the purpose about is the truth. The artist is on the 7th of a Political Party or an ideology or a religion and a free, a free person is often very alarming to people who want to control people of to settling in paris alone to coach discovered the she associated with actors. And writers began to rot place on early play was difficult home to use the opposition of phone or shame. Another was accepted, but then boy crosses by the act as of the comedy fall sense. 1784 can symbol in me is the alone took on the inhumanity of slavery. The oppression of women and the evils of racism and colonialism, and 1799. A revised version was finally performed on stage and was greeted with a phantom. An outrage. Replying to one of her detractors, balloons said, there are thousands of men like you to take centuries to produce a woman like me. Shortly after our return from 11 on my travels came to an abrupt and one country after another went into locked down. The corona virus shut down the entire world. What an irony for a feeling that the freedom, the something i never would have imagined became our new reality. Within just a few weeks. Basic rights like the freedom of movement or severely curtailed. The, the too many people are democracies seem to weak and helpless. Some felt that governments were doing too little to protect our citizens and were too slow and chaotic and their response. Others felt they were being robbed of their civil liberties. Depend demik showed us how fragile our freedoms and liberties can be. So do we need to take a leaf out of the bulk of enlightenment and explore new alternatives . Take a leap into the unknown the how often should i water them every other day . Please dont know cove and our thoughts or what just solely on the water. These are no, ill get the other ones from the balcony. The organs are, are labeled. Please dont forget to bill dying. So this is where our familys money ends up. Right there. We shall now still have the plans face before democracy. That doesnt mean were sure to switch the phase to some, some sort of china model. And we should all be satisfied with what we have. There might be Something Better the tongue tongue by has taught at New York University and was a fellow at harvard. He studies ethical questions and public life. And right now hes the professor of philosophy in shanghai. I grew up believing that democracy was the best of all possible worlds. I wish i could have spoken with tongue done by in person about his concept of social utopia, a confusion alternative to the liberal democratic order. But because of the pen demik had to join in by video call the cumming less than the phone. A lot of people out of excitement is self garvin is in that will be wonderful. But if a lot of people just are not able to govern themselves well, then maybe we should take some of their off our take away from them and give them give the, the power to those who are more responsible. And im more confident thats a fundamental confusion. Believe i want to have a society where people are, are whereas equal economically. If i to achieve that, if you need to arrange for there was some form of equality, we still preserve some form. I qualify with community, but then so you called communities, we saw we select the so called the best and brightest and give them more power in the political Decision Making process. Their higher status can only be justified if the poor people come benefit from their carbon a has the world become too complex . 10 are liberal democracies respond adequately to a norm as challenges like Climate Change or the cobra 19 pandemic is turned on by correct that his confusion hybrid system is better suited to dealing with such challenges. Challenges that involve science and complex social and economic conditions. Is it possible that experts might have Better Solutions to such problems . Just like the futures that enlightenment thinkers of the 18th century imagined in their writings, tongue buys new confucianism remains in the realm of your theory, which he enjoys debating with the student either frequently, all he does have right. And theres also sure lot center to that. So what do you think about freedom unenlightened meant . How do they relate to each other . Or on a basic level, vm light meant can be understood as the acknowledgment of human autonomy or a relatively radical form of self knowledge storage. That way, when i began my studies, i felt i wanted freedom you. This may totally realize to wasnt that jesus easier if you do whatever you want. You might write hello and deprive others of doing what they want. If i hit you, are you allowed to hit me too . You know, the have to be limit. So is what kind of how that was ended, call it. And thats where there are 2 kinds of freedom that youre going to use. Active freedom or the freedom to do something and the passive freedom or freedom from is what you want it usually, we mean the freedom to do your own thing. But in politics, we tend to mean freedom from something, being free of something. We dont want the, i didnt expect such a free thinking and philosophical discussion in china. Being a critical thinker can be dangerous. Thousands of journalists, artists, and human rights activists have been imprisoned because there are thorn in the i have the regime thats can either show more the ton nations office. The chinese model can be regarded as an enlightenment model because it radically constrains and prohibits Self Determination. The end of autonomy, height and individual freedom. Uh, im from the to this. I think when ive a impressive societies, people have a chance to say what they want. Thats what they want. The liberty of reason of what they dont want is tyranny, unreason so. So it may be that in spite of all the faults of the enlightenment at all, its our goods, if you like, at its own bigotries it. But underneath that, there are these values which are very important to us, something very close to universe for long degrees. The 1st use of the resolution were intoxicating friends to gain to constitution an assembly and freedom off to the fish winds, marched on the palace, cooling out for 5 feast smart power stops, and forcing the king to return to paris. She remained committed to republican ideals. When the 16th was put on trial and resolution with the attempt to get into a risk and tear off, she was dismayed. Scuffles and executioners of these 10 the results of the revolution that should have served as a model for the universe. She opposed to shuck of all sprain of tara, open the attack robust, p a and morocco, and cold for a referendum on the phone with the new government. Friends, she and sisters should decide, but wish to be a republican, a federation, or a Constitutional Monarchy in 1793. When she went to the pon, son michelle to begin posting her latest pamphlets, she was arrested. She was brought before the revolutionary tribunal and sentenced to death the when it comes to the 2nd half of the 2nd decade of the 20. Ready century i am not particularly contempt use of the last few years of scene of the rise of authoritarian populace and nationalism in many parts of the world. And in many ways that is a counter and light movement. Solar change to post. Yes. Yes, but its a for your loan over society is very divided on. This is a Southern Federal one side supports the current, remove the mass by the constitution and the courts mean im nothing to them. Symmetric. Yes, the little got changed. The othe