Dave Meslin has narrated 2 audiobooks on Listento.it by 2 authors, with an average listener rating of 4.7★ across 34 ratings. The most-rated is Teardown.
Teardown
Summary
2020 Dafoe Book Prize
A handbook of democratic solutions in troubled times, from the activist the media call a "wizard", a "mastermind", "the ultimate ideas guy", a "mad scientist", a "start-up genius".
Our democracy is a trainwreck. Our elections feel hollow and our legislatures have become toxic. Fierce partisanship, centralized power, distorted election results, and rigged systems all contribute to our growing cynicism.
Voters are increasingly turning towards the angriest candidates, or simply tuning out completely and staying at home. But as Dave Meslin's career has shown, we can fix things. We can turn elite power structures upside down. We can give a voice to ordinary people. But it means fixing things from the bottom up, and starting locally. It's hard to change the world if you can't change a municipal by-law. Teardown shows listeners how to do both. And it will show us that these two challenges are not fundamentally different.
From environmental activism to public space advocacy to the ongoing campaign for electoral reform, Dave Meslin has been both out on the street in marches and in the back rooms drawing up policy. With Teardown he reminds us that the future of our species doesn't need to look like a trainwreck. That we're capable of so much more.
It's time to raise our expectations: of the system, of each other and of ourselves. Only then can we re-imagine a new democracy, unrecognizable from today's political mess. This book is a recipe for change. A cure for cynicism. A war on apathy.
“Dave Meslin is a force of nature - a one-man think tank/pressure group who won’t stop until he sees his ideas for a better democracy put into action.” (Andrew Coyne)
©2019 Dave Meslin (P)2019 Penguin Canada
The Gnostic Gospels
Summary
The Gnostic Gospels provides engaging listening for those seeking a broader perspective on the early development of Christianity. Author and noted scholar Elaine Pagels suggests that Christianity could have developed quite differently if Gnostic texts had become part of the Christian canon. Without a doubt: Gnosticism celebrates God as both Mother and Father, shows a very human Jesus' relationship to Mary Magdalene, suggests the Resurrection is better understood symbolically, and speaks to self-knowledge as the route to union with God. Pagels argues that Christian orthodoxy grew out of the political considerations of the day, serving to legitimize and consolidate early church leadership. Her contrast of that developing orthodoxy with Gnostic teachings presents an intriguing trajectory on a world faith as it "might have become".
©1979 Elaine Pagels (P)2006 Random House, Inc. Random House Audio, a division of Random House, Inc.