The benefits of globalization did not reach all citizens, leading to a maldistribution of wealth. Those are merely received ideas, not necessarily the root cau

The benefits of globalization did not reach all citizens, leading to a maldistribution of wealth. Those are merely received ideas, not necessarily the root cause of a decline in democracy. Acid House music arose around the end of the Cold War. If, for some reason, a handful of influential figures had blamed Acid House for all society's problems instead of globalization, then presumably the author would have written: The benefits of Acid House did not reach all citizens, leading to a maldistribution of wealth. This century, we have landed on a whole framework for explaining what we don't like about the world - involving 'elites', globalism, immigrants, etc etc - and it is a pretty useless as a framework.