For anyone unfamiliar, this is Martin Gurri's blog. He's the author of The Revolt of the Public (Stripe press), a book that's making the rounds in the tech indu

For anyone unfamiliar, this is Martin Gurri's blog. He's the author of The Revolt of the Public (Stripe press), a book that's making the rounds in the tech industry. I'm part way through with it, but it's main thesis is the rise of the internet and social media has increased and decentralized the public's access to information and this has led to a break down in the legitimacy of traditional authorities (governments, media, academia, elites). I don't think anyone can doubt that narrative-breaking information is now more readily available and that authorities are more under the microscope than ever. This must have some political/societal ramifications. The result of all this information is as much a more informed voter population as it is creating a huge swath of just angry people. Whether this burst of protests in 2019 fits this narrative is open to debate and probably unprovable, but to his point calling it all random ends the chance of considering what the effects are of the continuing and accelerating flood of information available to people and the lowered efforts needed to create mass protests.