After diving into an article on J’accuse about the necessity of framing your political goals as inevitabilities, Dimes and Judas explore the book “Revolt of the Public” by Martin Gurri. There they discuss the multiplying of digital publics representing the people and how the unceasing assaults on institutional legitimacy can effectively abolish, but never replace, authority.
Timestamps:
00:00 – “J’Accuse” Article on Framing Politics as Inevitabilities
11:09 – “Revolt of the Public” Discussion Begins
13:16 – Digital Revolutions as an International Phenomenon
16:16 – The Information Revolution as Toxic to Authority
18:44 – Weak Online Bonds as Unifying, Not Propositional
23:21 – The Multi-Generational Fracturing of Identity Breaking Away from the Industrial Revolution
27:54 – The Dialectical Result of the Wars of Religion as a Case Study
32:45 – The Public as Narrow Temporally-Defined Manifestations of the Metaphysical People
41:31 – Authority Relying on the Illusion of Inevitability