How to Lead an Online Revolt Offline

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

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