The Revolt of the Public (video)
Explained
I mostly use this Substack for writing, obviously, and secondarily for podcasting. But my main gig is filmmaking. So from time to time I’ll have video to post, this being one of those times.
I talk a lot about Martin Gurri’s The Revolt of the Public, as well as Andrey Miroshnichenko’s book, Postjournalism and the Death of Newspapers. I thought it might be helpful to create a short explainer-type video laying out their theses. So I went ahead and did that.
Hope you enjoy it.
—LW
I greatly enjoyed it. You have talked about this before, but this was a wonderful explanation in a more visual form. And thank you for not putting it behind the paywall. I shared it on Twitter and with several people.
I'm sorry, but I really did not like it. It seems way oversimplified and dismissive. Look at the '60s we had the same situation but only a handful of television networks. You cannot just blame this on the internet and polarized media as if many of the issues driving this revolt do not exist. I think if you really want to understand what is going on you need another axis to the political spectrum, namely view on institutions. The traditional American classical liberalism has always had a distrust of institutions and the people who run them while the neoliberal and neoconservative tradition has an unwavering trust in institutions and experts and if had not noticed, they are the ones who have run things for over the past two decades.