Revolt Of The Public: Author, Martin Gurri, Says That The Digital Age is Sounding The Death Knell For Elite Institutions
Martin Gurri
https://www.linkedin.com/in/martin-gurri-370a8216/
The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millenium
https://www.amazon.com/Revolt-Public-Crisis-Authority-Millennium/dp/1732265143
The Fifth Wave Blog
https://thefifthwave.wordpress.com/what-is-the-fifth-wave/
Mercatus Center of George Mason University
https://www.mercatus.org/scholars/martin-gurri
Definitions of Terms in the book:
The Five Waves:
The Public - It is not a fixed body of individuals. It is merely the persons who are interested in an affair and can affect it only by supporting or opposing the actors. It is many, not one. Most effectively, it negates people and institutions without providing a viable replacement.
The People - A Political abstraction. The public can never be the people because the people are an abstraction of political philosophy. (Revolt of the Public, p.98, Kindle edition).
A Legal Definition:
The aggregate of the individuals who comprise a state or a nation. In a more restricted sense, as generally used in Constitutional Law, the entire body of those citizens of a state or a nation who are invested with political power for political purposes (the qualified voters).
Authority - The incumbent hierarchical structures which are established and accredited. Government first and foremost, but also corporations, universities and the whole roster of institutions from the industrial age.
Jordan Peterson
https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/
Hanz Zimmer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Zimmer
The Buggles
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Buggles
Noblesse Oblige
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/noblesse-oblige
Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students
Allan Bloom (1987)
The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy
Christopher Lasch (1996)
A Time To Build
Yuval Levin (2020)
Nassim Taleb (Skin in the Game)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nassim_Nicholas_Taleb
Ibn Khaldun
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibn_Khaldun
Governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo Press Conference - “You won. What do you want?”
https://news.yahoo.com/cuomo-don-t-protest-won-163708594.html
Antonio Garcia Martinez
https://antoniogarciamartinez.com/
Student Loan Debt - A raison d'etre of the public’s revolt?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student_loans_in_the_United_States
https://www.consumerreports.org/student-loan-debt-crisis/lives-on-hold/
The Big Lebowski
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Lebowski
Fight With Nihilist Scene (graphic language and violence)
José Ortega y Gasset
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Ortega_y_Gasset
The Mob Rules by Black Sabbath
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QcJCoKj6Kc
Dramatic Reading of the Declaration of Independence by Max McLean
(Demonstrates the difference between a revolt and a revolution)
Not discussed in this episode, but an interesting corollary to the show:
Bishop Barron’s Admonition to Catholic Twitter Mobs - “Cut It Out!”
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