From the Vault: The Revolt of the Public — With Martin Gurri

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🗓️ 28 December 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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From February 16, 2021 (Episode 284): Martin Gurri (Mercatus Center) discusses his book The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium. The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium (http://tinyurl.com/7tfedcbu) Reality Comes Knocking (http://tinyurl.com/mvptdyk8)

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0:00.0	I'm Welcome to another edition of the Tech Policy Podcast,
0:30.4	From the Vault.
0:32.6	I'm Corbyn Barthold, Internet Policy Council at Tech Freedom.
0:38.0	Today we're reaching back to February 16th, 2021.
0:44.3	We were only about eight months removed from the, quote,
0:48.0	mostly peaceful protests that followed the murder of George Floyd.
0:53.1	We were only like six weeks removed from the January 6th riot slash insurrection at the Capitol.
1:01.9	COVID-19 tinfoil hattery was in full flower online.
1:07.2	You might say that the public was in revolt.
1:12.5	It seems like the public is always in revolt these days.
1:16.8	Everyone thinks they're fighting the power.
1:20.3	Everyone thinks it's the other guy in authority.
1:23.7	But in reality, no one is in authority anymore. No one imposes a unified narrative on society.
1:33.7	Walter Cronkite is dead. We have fractured narratives. We live in bubble realities that have bubble
1:42.3	epistemologies and bubble moralities and bubble truths.
1:47.2	Martin Gurry is a former CIA analyst and a research fellow at the Mercatus Center.
1:53.4	He is the author of The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium,
1:59.4	published in 2014 and updated in 2018, in which he discussed,
2:05.9	at times rather prophetically, how the latest information wave brought on by the internet
2:12.9	is shaping recent events.
2:16.5	When information is scarce, authority is strong.
2:21.0	But we are living in an information flood.
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