and this is really shocking because basically for almost the entire 20th century, every year more and more democracies emerged around the world. that peaked in 2010. since 2010 the number of democracies around the world has been declining. and it doesn t show any sign of reversing itself. and, of course, when you think about, you know, what happened during this time, they were declining, as the internet penetrated into different regions and into different countries, you began to see all of these signs of societal division increasing, hate crimes increasing, strongmen being elected who are slowly taking away the guardrails of democracy in their country. and the surprising thing is that people didn t realize this was happening. if you talk to people in hungary