The article concludes that, rather than unproblematically mapping global, external facing narratives wholesale onto ordinary people's lives and experiences, there needs to be more dialogue between elites and non-elites on climate change and migration issues.
Then we need to rebuild our institutions to ensure accountability and transparency; restructure the economic system so that it is no longer dominated by a small elite; conduct a national dialogue; and then hold elections that bring to an end our tragic tradition of rule by strongmen.
Xi and Trump may have ironed out an elite international design to facilitate dialogue and negotiations over US-China relations, the Asia-Pacific and global affairs at the Mar-a-Lago Resort in April, and the Belt & Road Forum might be viewed as more of a mid-level design to establish a global dialogical structure with middle and small powers for co-development and co-security.
And that leads us to the possibility that the State of the Union address might have a slight negative impact on Obama's ratings: If the event marks a return to the usual polarized dialogue among political "elites," with Republican leaders resuming their intense partisan criticism, the president's approval ratings could fall.
But if the Republican Party is still grappling with voters' under the impression that they have merely got to alter their perceptions of their "problems," there's not going to be any meaningful dialogue between party elites and the electorate at large.
Agbénonci described the forum as an opportunity for "collective catharsis", saying it would give a voice to those who lacked one and break a decades-old trend of all dialogue taking place between elites in the capital.
The dialogue included some talk of colleges, elite schools to which a couple of the characters have applied.
This means beginning a public dialogue now, and not just among the elite and mega-rich tech companies, about our robotics, software, and computers that have the capacity for intelligent behavior, and not just in connection with lethal weaponry.
In the midst of a dangerous crisis that risked to propel the country down the precipice of civil conflict, the country's political elite managed, against the odds, to settle its differences through dialogue and compromise.
This is not something I am bringing up for the first time: this is a dialogue that exists within the community, in the media, in the elite class, in the lower class.
