I disagree that there was a privacy issue. The reality of the world is if you make a naked video of yourself with a woman, it's going to get out. A major difference in the age of the tsunami when you have these revolts, these revolts are the public. Once you start this protest, whatever you're protesting, that's what you're stuck on. And once the status quo turns to you and says, you got me, I'm ready to negotiate,. What do you want? There is no real public. There are many. So I want to keep talking about the public, but understand many and mutually hostile.
Author Martin Gurri, Visiting Fellow at George Mason University's Mercatus Center, talks about his book The Revolt of the Public with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Gurri argues that a digital tsunami--the increase in information that the web provides--has destabilized authority and many institutions. He talks about the amorphous nature of recent populist protest movements around the world and where we might be headed politically and culturally.