He touches on the symptoms but barely figures out the disease. The problem is that elites and institutions have been stripped naked. When the printing press w

He touches on the symptoms but barely figures out the disease. The problem is that elites and institutions have been stripped naked. When the printing press was invented, no one could have foreseen that the tsunami of information could have undermined the catholic institutions to such an extent, that it would lead to a devastating conflict ( 30 years war) fought over the pretext of very minor religios diffferences. But to anyone paying attention, the underlying current was there: the general populace had been profoundly dissilutioned by the elites, with the information tide leaving the elites stripped naked at the beach. Fast forward to the 1980s and the internet. The tsunami of information has come again, and left every institution and elite exposed. From the top down, presidents ("wmd's in Iraq", hillary's "deplorables" and "tell 1 thing to bankers and something else to public" ), senators ("pocahontas" story), reporters ("under enemy fire while reporting", sex scandals) or NYTs "Fake but real" headline apology, institutions (FBIs "collusion"), academia like medicine (lancet "covid report"), or economics "2008 no one could have foreseen coming", all the way down to mayors and councilmen. We see failures and lack of respect in every corner of elites. The tide has left the lies and manipulation of every institution naked. We must hope that more people like taibbi realize this, and move quickly to descentralize power from old institutions because the other solution is to burn everything down and that usually turns out much worse.