While I hadn't considered it from a scholarly research perspective, a psychometric and demographic analysis of change in leaders over time would yield informati

While I hadn't considered it from a scholarly research perspective, a psychometric and demographic analysis of change in leaders over time would yield information about their legitimacy and competence. Technology change doesn't really describe it as well either, as pre-internet, 60's counterculture (hippies) was predicated on a conspiracy theory, as was the reaction to it (birch society), the entire cold war was a conspiracy theory about infiltration and subversion, and up until the 90s, conspiracy movies were some of the biggest pop culture influences, and investigative journalism that challenged the integrity of institutions was considered the highest form of the art. Using the internet as the source for "technological change," is probably the most coarse selection bias one could create. Pre 9/11, much of the world mobilized and was in more dangerous riots than anything today as part of the anti-globalization movement of the 90s when the internet wasn't as big of a thing, which was a reaction to a conspiracy by the same people (WEF) pulling this stuff today. All counter culture is a reaction and a conspiracy theory, so the author is really just writing a manual for suppressing counterculture. Viewed this way, I probably shouldn't have been as kind. I'd suggest it should be on the author to deflect assertions of malice.