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 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 threat now in the west to 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 been my convince began bringing was a progress reason and human rights. Today, these achievements, arteries, to me, 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 moment to find convention and chose her own destiny. She came from humble beginnings, bone, marie cruz. She was the daughter of a butcher under washable and 1765. 00. 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 to be her true father the process of paris, where she took the name long to googe. Although an educated lump 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 in me, richard, the fashionable, loopy scene. Pre revolutionary, a lead swept up by discussions of resolution. She became a social reformer activist for womens rights. Its odd that i dont know anything about a lot 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 cheap talk latest, you know, when i look at that as a woman and as a woman of color, im surprised when i see man and more man and more men. A large majority of the people in this world, i am 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 bred rise. The demands would go on to the fundamentally re Shape Society along to goose attempted meetings, but the shock about club became a political activist in the past, as addressed to queen marie antoinette. She bemoaned the traditional role of women in another past which encourage the king to abdicate outspoken and opinion nicer. She became more vehement as the resolution progressed. It was this refusal to be silent, but unfortunately helps you last night. Im going to live and on where my journey begins. Our world is in 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 was a financial hub, elegant and cosmopolitan. Been king, the civil war. Today there are power outages, almost every day. Food prices are soaring, 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. 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 blue bush just to give you the total implant term justice like the term freedoms. Its hard to define who she is that theyve just disregard 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 i had that she was the 1st person to publish an erotic magazine in the era of world and has received countless death threats. She also founded the Freedom Center in bay route. The jumanda is a journalist, author, and tv. 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. 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 of this. Its something that you have to wake up every day. Advice for me. I could do nothing without this freedom. The freedom to think 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 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 was 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 started 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 morris 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 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. The streaming is the best deal, all sudden that applies to women of friends. They joined the resolution to alum. The goes, wanted runs, not just a voice women, she insisted, should have the right to vote, hold Public Office and prophecy, and be financially independent. The, when the new National Assembly issued the declaration of the rights of man and citizens, women received no mention orlando patients was that an end in shop and forceful language. She turned to 17 articles of the declaration of the rights of man, to the declaration of the rights of women, 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 polk to the is lisa. This sentence with proof, professor. Defiance come for them. Degree is fine for you to is still relevant today student me at the findings to equal pay for the core walk for equal respects for women is a part of the science seat. Hired is a desire to charleston and be rude. Jumanda had organized the 1st feminism festival and the protected space that they also do fall saying there was plenty to talk about one more, but i didnt know we didnt was that you know, most of the benefits 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 then, and all people kind of, um, and as you said, 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 is different. He has a goals. I grew up in a very conservative family. But ever since i was little 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, 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 husband, 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 and courageous and as far as the horn, no 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, but it helps bring about change. The story, 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 2 on your wrist, which is another trouble i have like 7 talk to is with i can not to all of them 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 mana, 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. 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 coach discovered the she associated with actors in right as a begin to rock place, one early play was difficult home to stay on position or phone or shame. Another was accepted, but then boy crosses by the act as of the comedy fall sense. 1784. 00 in symbol in music alone took on the inhumanity of slavery, the oppression of women and the evils of racism and colonialism. And 1799. Over 5 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 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 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 or 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 in their response. Others felt they were being robbed of their civil liberties. The 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 doors. How often should i water them every other day . Please dont know. Close and sour thoughts or what just so i only watch are these are no, ill get the other ones from the balcony. The organs 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 time and model and we should all be satisfied with what we have. There might be Something Better tom done by has taught at New York University and was a fellow at harvard. He studies ethical questions in 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 depend demik i had to join in by video call the common lesson phone. A lot of people out of excitement is sell. 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 alternative 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. I thought to achieve that if you need to arrange for the some form upgrade or any quantity, we still preserve some form. I qualify with community, but then so you called communities, we saw we sleggs difficult to pass and practiced and give them more power. In the plato Decision Making process, their higher status come home to be justified. Steve, 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 by his new confucianism remains in the realm of your theory, which he enjoys debating with a student either. Frequently, all he does have ortho dissolve. I assure 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, the enlightenment 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 the chalet tele realize to it wasnt that much easier if you do whatever you want. You might break the little 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 it will kind of how jobless ended 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 it. So she was 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 freethinking 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. These are 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. Im saying for me to this, i think when i have a impressive societies, people have a chance to say what they want. Thats 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 at all, its our goods, if you like, at its own bigger trees. 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 or intoxicating front to gain to constitution an assembly and freedom off to the fish winds, marched on the palace, cooling out and for 5 feet small 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 fit into a risk terror. She was dismayed. Scuffles and executioners of these 10 the results of the revolution that should have served as a model for the universe to post the shock of all spraying of tara open the attack robust and murat and cold for a referendum on the phone with the new government. Friends, she and sisters should decide, but wished to be a republican, a federal ration, or a constitutional monarchy, and 1793. 00. 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 20. Ready 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. Yeah. 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, remove the mass by the constitution and the courts mean nothing to them is not true. Yes, the little got changed. The other side places the great importance on freedom, boss, justice, and the distribution of powers. Well