Hum... I've not read so far the study, just skimmed the article and honestly I'm not convinced at all. Modern era born essentially with the French, American an

Hum... I've not read so far the study, just skimmed the article and honestly I'm not convinced at all. Modern era born essentially with the French, American and October Revolutions, witch are described in general as people revolutions, but if we read more carefully the history we have, their outcome they should probably be read as the banker's revolutions. The old élite was essentially a military and religious one, decoupled, the new one is essentially economical/merchant/financial with still a fragment of religion and military power aside. That means their power is mostly based on very deep understatement of the people behaviors, since they can't count on strong power to repress. Actual élite might be "disconnected from the real world" but definitively know VERY DEEPLY WELL the public opinion, they master it, also thanks to surveillance capitalism. What they misread probably is the physical reality, like they imaging a future that's totally surrealistic while to their eyes sound definitively possible, but hardly they ignore or misread the public, they are the master of propaganda more than ever.