The Shared Centre

How come so many bad guys get to the top in our institutions?
We set it up that way.
New YouTube series by Nicholas Gruen with original music by Brian Eno.

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#TheSharedCentre brings a book-sized vision to life in 20 bite-sized weekly videos.

Creator @NGruen1 explores the decline of public trust in our institutions and how to put everyday people like you back at the centre. Featuring new music by Brian Eno.

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The resource curse represents an economic paradox. Nations with abundant natural wealth often experience severe poverty. People monopolise existing assets and ignore the creation of new industries, but Australia remains a rare exception to this devastating global economic trap.

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Think a new scandal will finally sink Donald Trump? Think again! The truth is that many voters do not care about the endless controversies because our political system is broken. The fix is not shifting opinions; it means building different systems that citizens can defend.

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Good ideas mean nothing in modern politics. Tony Windsor's rigorous town hall test for political candidates shows that you need thousands of dollars to survive the system. We must build new institutional support structures to rescue well-intentioned leaders from this madness.

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A subtle shift in campaign tactics has undermined the Westminster system of democracy. Politicians swapped a robust structure of trust for a cheap game of public attention. The consequence? All the wrong types of people being made leaders of our governments.

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Ideas are either regarded seriously by the policy community or as complete non-starters. Watch to learn about the Overton window of interest and the Overton window of the imagination.

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Politics is broken, but we already found a cure: there is a way to bypass endless ideological debates and focus on serving the public interest. The answer lies in a house with no formal power but a massive influence.

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Well partly by lottery anyway. Select the electors by lottery!

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The latest video from @thesharedcentre summarizes an approach (a lottery) to bring policy making closer to the citizen (or vice versa) and lead to more stable, effective governance.

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Why We Should Pick Leaders... by Lottery

Watch how a simple lottery system could replace endless debates and finally put everyday people back in the driving seat: what if the best leaders are the ones who never ran for office?

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Stop voting for the loudest person in the room: learn how a Council of Leaders and secret ballots, not elections, can improve institutional logic and restore trust in our modern democracy.

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What happens when you give everyday people the power to challenge Congress or Parliament? Simple: a safeguard against political polarisation, bringing common sense back to our government.

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Every human conversation demands a careful balance between shared goals and private desires. When your personal motives dominate the interaction, the entire social ecology collapses. The balance between the shared and the private is the essence of whether our systems function.