
225 w/ Martin Gurri - "The Revolt of the Public"
The Fifth Column
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Is There a Meaning in Politics?
Martin: I have no answer for this, that they're angry and that they're there in the mood of repudiation and negation. What politics cannot possibly give them people who basically have lost their religion, have lost their sense of locality,. Have lost many of them their sense of family in the old sense of the word. And so you're left with people who are struggling to find the most important thing next to a square meal a day or three squares a day. That human beings need, which is meaning, right? If your life has no meaning, you're going to be distraught.
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