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> It discounts without comment the possibility that the pre-internet style of governance had substantive problems which the working class didn't like (e.g. glob
by vanderZwan 8y ago
> It discounts without comment the possibility that the pre-internet style of governance had substantive problems which the working class didn't like (e.g. globalization leading to a race to the bottom in manufacturing wages).
It's there between the lines: the author mentions the power of the big companies in the 20th century to shape the narrative through mass media and a lack of proper information among the public, and how that power is now crumbling and how the narrative is being democratized.
Basically, it boils down to mutual knowledge, and large shifts in that causes power-shifts in society.
[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-son3EJTrU&t=7m40s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-son3EJTrU&t=7m40s