What worries me is that the mechanisms for government slowly adapting to changing situations have been eroded. Massive public protests are now far less effectiv

What worries me is that the mechanisms for government slowly adapting to changing situations have been eroded. Massive public protests are now far less effective than they were, because the authorities are using new technologies, such as mass-surveillance, to suppress them. The result is an ossifying system of government, that is slowly, but surely diverging from consent of the people.