Ep 100 | Why the Elites Have Lost Control | Martin Gurri | The Glenn Beck Podcast

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News Commentary, Politics, News

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🗓️ 6 March 2021

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

The internet is brutal. Martin Gurri calls it a “great mutilator.” Gurri was a global media analyst at the CIA in 2001, right as the internet erupted with what he describes as an “Information Tsunami.” That year, more information was produced than all information before it. The next year, double. Then double that, and it threw the leadership structure of the world into a “state of crisis.” Gurri wrote about it in his book, “The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium,” and he joins Glenn to discuss the main issue it created, which we’re still feeling now: The old school elites aren’t the only loud voice in the room anymore. Gurri explains how many of America’s most divisive issues are all connected: cancel culture, corruption in media, nihilism, why people see white supremacists or Antifas everywhere lately. The internet created America’s great divide. But can it also bring us back together? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Believe it or not, and I think you will, we're in the middle of a revolution, a global revolution,
0:07.0	technological, information revolution, and
0:11.0	a lot of really powerful people don't like it one bit. We have witnessed the collapse of state and
0:18.7	institutions
0:19.7	from corporations to
0:23.7	systems of government. The elites have lost control.
0:27.7	Journalists have lost power. Academics have lost power in control. The old status quo is under attack or destroyed.
0:37.7	And it's happening all over the world and the new
0:41.7	status quo
0:43.7	is chaotic and aggressive. Every day it seems like there's another battle being fought.
0:48.7	The public revolt against the elite class has shattered every domain of authority.
0:55.7	We don't trust any institution anymore. And that's not just an American thing.
1:01.7	Now the elites are scrambling to maintain power. They flourished under the industrial society.
1:08.7	But now as a result of the information revolution, it has been gutted of its legitimacy
1:14.7	with no signs of recovery, only a power grab or something else that is yet to be defined.
1:21.7	The elites want us to believe that our issues are economic,
1:25.7	better yet socio-economic, because that's even more divisive, a better diversion.
1:31.7	But the real issues is with the elites themselves. The real problem is corruption.
1:38.7	And all of it has happened as a result of the internet.
1:42.7	Not the corruption, but the exposure and the networking with one another.
1:48.7	Elites can no longer hide their failures and their corruption,
1:52.7	nor can they silence people easily.
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