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Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
André Chaperon
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No one has yet decided on the name for the force that has come to unseat liberalism. Some say it’s “Social Justice.” The author Rod Dreher has called it “therapeutic totalitarianism.” The writer Wesley Yang refers to it as “the successor ideology”—as in, the successor to liberalism.
At some point, it will have a formal name, one that properly descri... See more
At some point, it will have a formal name, one that properly descri... See more
Hamish McKenzie: On social media, posers are often given the most status points, and so we’re left with a misleading idea of authority; it seems the people who are loudest in their claims to be experts — the ones we hear from most on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube — are the ones to be most wary of. When self-proclaimed experts are ultimately reveal... See more
Youyang Gu • 21 Experts on the Future of Expertise - Future
to participate in the great decisions of government. There was, Lippmann brooded, no “intrinsic moral and intellectual virtue to majority rule.” Lippmann’s disenchantment with democracy anticipated the mood of today’s elites. From the top, the public, and the swings of public opinion, appeared irrational and uninformed. The human material out of wh
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Letting us pick our own experts as a society leaves us listening to the loudest voice, not the most correct or beneficial.
Alex Morris • 3_TRENDS_Vol.12: Alex Morris: Assisted Socializing, Memory Management + Professional Amateurs
because he looked and sounded like the wealthy uncle to whom children in the family are forced to listen for profitable life lessons. When he