If we can't offer people a path other than "go to an elite school, maybe become a coder, and be very lucky" we will reap the whirlwind.
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Internet means that old methods of control via elite gatekeeping of public discourse won't work. I wrote about it:http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/31/opinion/campaign-stops/adventures-in-the-trump-twittersphere.html …
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If people see no path to a good future, they will vote in strongman who promise to solve all this with an iron fist. Europe, US, elsewhere.
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Not a US anomaly. EU elections are being swept by "strongman" parties. Elsewhere too. That it's come to US shows how deep the problem is.
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One hopes what's happening across the world will spur strong, healthy movements and shifts among the elite. History says you need need both.
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History also says more likely outcome is elites bury their heads in the sand while destructive currents whiplash the world. Yes, it's scary.
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted Jonathan Glick
No, but it's been accumulating for a while. And people gain experience and realize the new normal is not an anomaly.https://twitter.com/jonathanglick/status/725311784299696131 …
zeynep tufekci added,
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"Arab Spring", wars, Trump, UKIP, Austria, Hungary all show this: Amidst unease, old ways of control are crumbling. New responses not here.
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Austria. Carries glock, supports welfare for natives, virulently anti-refugee. Familiar, no? http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/25/austrian-far-right-partys-triumph-presidential-poll-turmoil-norbert-hofer …pic.twitter.com/6Q71ase4H0
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Hungary's Victor Orbán, promising an illiberal, nationalist state. (He's clamped down on media, too).pic.twitter.com/TXSteC2btD
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I can list many countries. People have reasons to be unsettled, and often lacking alternative politics, they turn to "iron fist" parties.
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To end the thread where it begin: Forces propelling Trump are neither a mystery nor an anomaly. Response must begin with understanding this.
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