The 36 years ago, my parents played iran for germany in search of the fall of the berlin wall. And the people overcome with joy and excitement was 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, and 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 threat 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, the over 3 centuries ago, the age of enlightenment began bringing was a progress reason and human rights. Today, these achievements arteries. 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 the 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 the 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 cruz. She was the daughter of the butcher, under washable. In 1765 at the age of 17, she was married to a restaurant to who died soon afterward. Some said it was the noble lot of the man room it to be like truth father the process of paris where she took the name long to googe. Although im educated alone 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 rushing that held up a mirror to the fashionable, loopy scene. Pre revolutionary elite slipped up by discussions of resolution. She became a social reformer and activist for womens rights. Its odd that i dont know anything about on the 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 past. If you look at the time of enlightenment and some of the cheap 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 rights. The demands would go on to the fund to mentally reshape society, alone to goose attended meetings with their junk about clubs and became a political activist. In the past, the address to clean the re entry this. She belonged the traditional role of women in another past which encourage the king to abdicate outspoken and opinion nice. She became more vehement as the resolution progressed. It was this refusal to be silent, but unfortunately helps you cite 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 soaring, and most people live in desperate poverty. And a zip 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. If 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 . Yes, the whole whole told him problem in terms of justice like the term freedom. Its hard to define who she is, that theyve just disregard all public action to be today. Around my goal must be to achieve social harmony with at least a minimum level of contentment. For all those 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 that in a place like this where the state is so weak, you need strong individuals to push for change. Like do you mind i had that she was the 1st person to publish an erotic magazine in the air of world and has received countless death threats. She also founded the Freedom Center in bay route. Jumanda is a journalist, author, and tv hello. This is where the main meeting, shes also one of the most influential women in the airport. I have the chairs here, this. Oh wow. 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 he assured . See here . It says our evolution. This is some unless 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 ride to 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 beautiful area. Yes it is. Do you feel safe in this area to sleep in the sense you know when your, um, 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 a antibiotic magazine with the arts and culture about the body in arabic, 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 take more risk 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 . I have no sick. This is it. And ive been lucky so far, the mazda shopping them at a despite the threats, jumanda continues to speak out, write, and publish feminist text. The streaming is the best deal also neutralized to women of friends. They joined the resolution. The alarm the goes, 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 or lumps. Patients was asking and 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 woman and the female citizen should and sent it to the National Assembly and to queen marie antoinette. Article one woman is born free and remains equal to man in rights. Bicycle 10 woman has the right to mount the scaffold, so she should have to ride equally to mount the pope to the is lisa. This sentence with proof professing the defiance come for love degree is fine for you to is still relevant today. Sting me at the findings to equal pay signal or walk. So equal respect for women, this upon cost, the science feet higher, these are cause a johnston and be rude. Jumanda had organized the 1st feminism festival in the protected space of the also to phone saying there was plenty to talk about. 0 one more, but i had, i didnt know we didnt was such an emotional different, but when i suggested a public forum 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 then, and all people got on that is that you call yourself an angry ss or feminist. Yeah. What does this mean . It means a lot of trouble. How come this became such a the past in your life where you treat this differently as a goals . I go. 5 and a very conservative family like ever since i was list all 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, its of what saves me war. My readings, 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, 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 at best goals and courageous. And 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 the bottom in the media. All we ever see all the same traditional roles for women and to manage the mother who tends to everyones needs 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 because i cannot to all of them. 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 privilege 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. 11 on arch is the safety valve thats probably keeping society from exploding 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 discover the she associated with actors. And writers began to rod plays on early play. It was difficult for me to stay on position of phone or shame. Another was accepted, but then boy crosses by the act as of the comedy fall sense 17, a full can symbol in me as a law 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 venom. 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 i returned from 11 on my travels, came to an abrupt and one country after another went in to lock 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, to 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 book of enlightenment and explore new alternatives . Take a leap into the unknown the door. How often should i water them every other day . Please dont know close to our thoughts or what just solely on the water. These are no, ill get the other ones from the balcony. The orchids are all labeled. Please dont forget to theyll die. So this is where our familys money ends up. Right there. We shall now still have the plan phase before democracy. That doesnt mean we should switch the phase to some, 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 coming lesson phone, a lot of people out of excitement is self garvin is in that will be wonderful, but a lot of people just arent able to govern themselves. Well, then maybe we should take some of their authority away from them and give them give 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 re introduce some form, upgrade, or any quantity, we still preserve some form. I qualify with community, but then so you called communities, we saw we flags, difficult 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 enormous 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 writing tongue dung buys new confucianism remains in the realm of your theory, which he enjoys debating with a student either frequently. All he does have a sure law center to that. So what do you think about freedom unenlightened meant . How do they relate to each other . On a basic level, vm light meant can be understood as the acknowledgment of human autonomy for a relatively radical form of self knowledge storage. That way, when i began my studies, i thought i wanted freedom you. This may totally realize to wasnt that much easier if you do whatever you want, you might break the little and deprive evidence of doing what they want. If i hit you, are you allowed to hit me to mean im not the have to be limit, so theres no kind of how java standard caught it. And thats where there are 2 kinds of freedom that you dont to use. Active freedom or the freedom to do something and passive freedom or freedom from is what she wants. 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. We dont know it or 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 theyre a thorn. And the i have the regime excuse me, either some of the nation as of the chinese model, kathy regarded as an enlightenment model because it radically constrains and prohibits Self Determination. The end of it autonomy, height, and individual freedom. Uh, im saying for me to this, i think when ive a impressive societies, people have a chance to say what they want, what they want the liberty of reason. Um what they dont want is tyranny, unreason. So. So it may be that in spite of all the faults of the enlightenment, all its arrow goods, few like its own big countries. But underneath that, there are these values which are very important and 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 feet small power stops, and forcing the king to return to paris. She remained committed to republican ideals, when literally the 16th was put on trial and resolution raced the tip to fit into a risk and tear off. She was dismayed. Scuffles and executioners of these then the results of the revolution that should have served as a model for the universe. She oppose. The shock of all sprain of tara open, the attack robust and murat, and called for a referendum on the phone with the new government. Friends, she and sisters should decide but wish to be a republican, a federal ration, or a Constitutional Monarchy in 1793. When she went to the pond, son michelle to begin posting her latest pamphlet, 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 21st century. I am not particularly content. This of the last few years of seeing that the rise of authoritarian populace and nationalism became in many parts of the world. And in many ways that is a counter and light movement. Solar changed for post. Yes. Yes, but its a for your loan over society is very divided on in uh, yeah. Is that something federal one side supports the current for me, the aspect of the constitution and the courts mean nothing to them is not true. Yes. Theyve got changed the other side places of great import