How Tech Has Made Government Obsolete | Martin Gurri
The Mark Moss Show
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The Origins of the Public
There's no such thing as the people. The public are a group from within the public, or people over the masses that step up to identify themselves with a movement. At some point, something done by the elites or some circumstance of life, rubs enough people the wrong way that they break off from the elite and say I don't like the way things are headed. That's how the public is born. In the old days, they would have had radical parties that are organized or whatever. Today, they go online and they organize that way. It's just a group of people that don't really identify themselves.
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