And indeed, the Right Livelihood Award goes to this year, people who build such peer-to-peer communication networks to speak from the margins to fight against injustice. And so the idea of a horizontal mode of trust through broad listening, I think is really key. If vertical institutions share their power to set the agenda so that people can, through broad listening, set the agenda of those institutions, then it’s an act of radically trusting the people. And then some of the people may trust back. But it always starts from the vertical power trusting the people first.

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