I don’t know if Taiwan have already reinvent the democracy or not. But there are many lessons I’ve learned from civil society. From the Sunflower Movement, we see the representative system failed - they couldn’t hear what people really want. But why we need the representative democracy? Hundreds years ago we didn’t have the capacity and the bandwidth for all the individuals to express their opinions on the politic. But now everyone lives in a social media network and spreads our thoughts and feeling every single day. Our policy making systems should become this new way to interact with us. But no only the system needs change, we also need to change. Our life is lack of the experiences and success model about how we deal with openness, decentralized or bottom-up governance. Unless we have adopt this slow, complex democracy process in our daily life as a culture, we couldn’t really reinvent the democracy.

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