The Revolt of the Public. We are not “polarized” today. We are fragmented.
“All over the world, elite institutions from governments to media to academia are losing their authority and monopoly control of information to dynamic amateurs and the broader public.
This book, until now only in samizdat (and Kindle) form, has been my No. 1 handout for the last several years to anyone seeking to understand this unfolding shift in power from hierarchies to networks in the age of the internet.”
—Marc Andreessen, cofounder, Netscape and Andreessen Horowitz
The above quote refer to a powerful must-read book by Martin Gurri called The Revolt of the Public.
https://www.amazon.com/Revolt-Public-Crisis-Authority-Millennium-ebook/dp/B07J2V3PG4
Now we have Spotify and its competitors, and we all think it is natural to have 50,000 different choices.
With the development of the internet, to use Gurri’s analysis, we are not truly “polarized” today. We are fragmented.
Not just in the US but all over the world, our information sources are no longer limited to mainstream media. We are bombarded with opinions on our phones and email. Social media adds to the tumult.
We are increasingly tribalized and, not surprisingly, we value the opinions of those in our tribe more than others.
Love or hate Elon Musk, he has decided that free speech is the hill he will die on.
John Mauldin 13 September 2024
https://www.mauldineconomics.com/frontlinethoughts/the-revolt-of-the-public
The End of Trust: Former CIA Analyst Martin Gurri on the Information “Tsunami”
Something phenomenal happened in 2001. Humanity generated more information in a single year than it had in all of human history, combined, up to that point.
In 2002, it happened again. Humanity doubled the amount of information generated in 2001.
Patrick Deneen “Why Liberalism Failed”
https://englundmacro.blogspot.com/2023/07/how-do-you-replace-elite.html
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