https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/book-review-the-revolt-of-the-publicrevolting against elites, but the revolt has moved forward so quickly that a lot of what Gurri considers wild speculation is now obvious fact."
"Martin Gurri's The Revolt Of The Public is from 2014, which means you might as well read the Epic of Gilgamesh. It has a second-edition-update-chapter from 2017, which might as well be Beowulf. The book is about how social-media-connected masses are
An excellent book review concerning the future of US democratic politics in the age of the internet.Discourse magazine. He served at the Director of National Intelligence Open Source Center in various senior positions, including director of research. "
From Wikepedia: "Martin Gurri is a former CIA analyst who writes about the relationship between politics and media. He is a visiting fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University in Virginia and is a contributing writer to the center's
Also from Wikepedia, the reviewer: "Slate Star Codex (SSC) was a blog focused on science, medicine (especially within psychiatry), philosophy, politics, and futurism. The blog was written by Scott Alexander Siskind,[1] a San Francisco Bay Areapsychiatrist,[2] under the pen name Scott Alexander."
On Saturday, July 9, 2022 at 12:22:30 PM UTC-4, ltlee1 wrote:revolting against elites, but the revolt has moved forward so quickly that a lot of what Gurri considers wild speculation is now obvious fact."
https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/book-review-the-revolt-of-the-public
"Martin Gurri's The Revolt Of The Public is from 2014, which means you might as well read the Epic of Gilgamesh. It has a second-edition-update-chapter from 2017, which might as well be Beowulf. The book is about how social-media-connected masses are
Discourse magazine. He served at the Director of National Intelligence Open Source Center in various senior positions, including director of research. "An excellent book review concerning the future of US democratic politics in the age of the internet.
From Wikepedia: "Martin Gurri is a former CIA analyst who writes about the relationship between politics and media. He is a visiting fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University in Virginia and is a contributing writer to the center's
psychiatrist,[2] under the pen name Scott Alexander."Also from Wikepedia, the reviewer: "Slate Star Codex (SSC) was a blog focused on science, medicine (especially within psychiatry), philosophy, politics, and futurism. The blog was written by Scott Alexander Siskind,[1] a San Francisco Bay Area
"Gurri calls our current government a kind of "zombie democracy". The institutions of the 20th century -
legislatures, universities, newspapers - continue to exist. But they are hollow shells, stripped of all legitimacy.
Nobody likes or trusts them. They lurch forward, mimicking the motions they took in life, but no longer able to
change or make plans or accomplish new things.
There is no longer a role for leaders qua leaders; they would attain office, fail to solve everything immediately,
and get torn to pieces. To adapt, leaders have become “protesters-in-chief”. Gurri says that Obama's presidential
speeches took an unprecedented turn from "here is why America is great" to "I stand beside you in your conclusion
that everything sucks and in your desire to change it". Obama marched with protesters and validated their anger.
In the afterword for the second edition, Gurri holds up Trump as a different sort of protester-in-chief, somebody
whose very existence sends a message of "I hate the elites and everything they stand for", and who consequently
gets a pass on not having solved all problems yet. "
https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/book-review-the-revolt-of-the-publicrevolting against elites, but the revolt has moved forward so quickly that a lot of what Gurri considers wild speculation is now obvious fact."
"Martin Gurri's The Revolt Of The Public is from 2014, which means you might as well read the Epic of Gilgamesh. It has a second-edition-update-chapter from 2017, which might as well be Beowulf. The book is about how social-media-connected masses are
An excellent book review concerning the future of US democratic politics in the age of the internet.
https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/book-review-the-revolt-of-the-publicrevolting against elites, but the revolt has moved forward so quickly that a lot of what Gurri considers wild speculation is now obvious fact."
"Martin Gurri's The Revolt Of The Public is from 2014, which means you might as well read the Epic of Gilgamesh. It has a second-edition-update-chapter from 2017, which might as well be Beowulf. The book is about how social-media-connected masses are
An excellent book review concerning the future of US democratic politics in the age of the internet.Discourse magazine. He served at the Director of National Intelligence Open Source Center in various senior positions, including director of research. "
From Wikepedia: "Martin Gurri is a former CIA analyst who writes about the relationship between politics and media. He is a visiting fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University in Virginia and is a contributing writer to the center's
Also from Wikepedia, the reviewer: "Slate Star Codex (SSC) was a blog focused on science, medicine (especially within psychiatry), philosophy, politics, and futurism. The blog was written by Scott Alexander Siskind,[1] a San Francisco Bay Areapsychiatrist,[2] under the pen name Scott Alexander."
Actually, two distinct reality are leading to the mass movement depending on the influence of elites.
One is the unlivable kind of reality. The other, as described by SSC above, is split reality. American
elites have successfully created and so far maintaining the this split reality. But it is not any kind of
solution to nihilism except the extremists. Little chance to rebuild a unified and trusted by all center.
On Saturday, July 9, 2022 at 12:22:30 PM UTC-4, ltlee1 wrote:revolting against elites, but the revolt has moved forward so quickly that a lot of what Gurri considers wild speculation is now obvious fact."
https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/book-review-the-revolt-of-the-public
"Martin Gurri's The Revolt Of The Public is from 2014, which means you might as well read the Epic of Gilgamesh. It has a second-edition-update-chapter from 2017, which might as well be Beowulf. The book is about how social-media-connected masses are
Discourse magazine. He served at the Director of National Intelligence Open Source Center in various senior positions, including director of research. "An excellent book review concerning the future of US democratic politics in the age of the internet.
From Wikepedia: "Martin Gurri is a former CIA analyst who writes about the relationship between politics and media. He is a visiting fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University in Virginia and is a contributing writer to the center's
psychiatrist,[2] under the pen name Scott Alexander."Also from Wikepedia, the reviewer: "Slate Star Codex (SSC) was a blog focused on science, medicine (especially within psychiatry), philosophy, politics, and futurism. The blog was written by Scott Alexander Siskind,[1] a San Francisco Bay Area
"Gurri talks a lot about Center and Border, but barely even mentions Left and Right. Once you reintroduce these,
you have a solution to nihilism. The Left can come up with a laundry list of High Modernist plans that they think
would solve all their problems, and the Right can do the same. Then one or the other takes control of government,
gets thwarted by checks/balances/Mitch McConnell, and nothing happens. No American Democrat was forced to
conclude that just because Obama couldn't solve all their problems, the promise of High Modernism was a lie. They
just concluded that Obama could have solved all their problems, but the damn Republicans filibustered the bill.
Likewise, the Republicans can imagine that Donald Trump would have made America great again if the media and
elites and Deep State hadn't been blocking him at every turn. Donald Trump himself tells them this is true!"
Actually, two distinct reality are leading to the mass movement depending on the influence of elites.
One is the unlivable kind of reality. The other, as described by SSC above, is split reality. American
elites have successfully created and so far maintaining the this split reality. But it is not any kind of
solution to nihilism except the extremists. Little chance to rebuild a unified and trusted by all center.
On Saturday, July 9, 2022 at 12:22:30 PM UTC-4, ltlee1 wrote:revolting against elites, but the revolt has moved forward so quickly that a lot of what Gurri considers wild speculation is now obvious fact."
https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/book-review-the-revolt-of-the-public
"Martin Gurri's The Revolt Of The Public is from 2014, which means you might as well read the Epic of Gilgamesh. It has a second-edition-update-chapter from 2017, which might as well be Beowulf. The book is about how social-media-connected masses are
Discourse magazine. He served at the Director of National Intelligence Open Source Center in various senior positions, including director of research. "An excellent book review concerning the future of US democratic politics in the age of the internet.
From Wikepedia: "Martin Gurri is a former CIA analyst who writes about the relationship between politics and media. He is a visiting fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University in Virginia and is a contributing writer to the center's
psychiatrist,[2] under the pen name Scott Alexander."Also from Wikepedia, the reviewer: "Slate Star Codex (SSC) was a blog focused on science, medicine (especially within psychiatry), philosophy, politics, and futurism. The blog was written by Scott Alexander Siskind,[1] a San Francisco Bay Area
"Gurri talks a lot about Center and Border, but barely even mentions Left and Right. Once you reintroduce these,
you have a solution to nihilism. The Left can come up with a laundry list of High Modernist plans that they think
would solve all their problems, and the Right can do the same. Then one or the other takes control of government,
gets thwarted by checks/balances/Mitch McConnell, and nothing happens. No American Democrat was forced to
conclude that just because Obama couldn't solve all their problems, the promise of High Modernism was a lie. They
just concluded that Obama could have solved all their problems, but the damn Republicans filibustered the bill.
Likewise, the Republicans can imagine that Donald Trump would have made America great again if the media and
elites and Deep State hadn't been blocking him at every turn. Donald Trump himself tells them this is true!"
Actually, two distinct reality are leading to the mass movement depending on the influence of elites.
One is the unlivable kind of reality. The other, as described by SSC above, is split reality. American
elites have successfully created and so far maintaining the this split reality. But it is not any kind of
solution to nihilism except the extremists. Little chance to rebuild a unified and trusted by all center.
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