Book Review: The Revolt Of The Public - by Scott Alexander

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Book Review: The Revolt Of The Public ... Scott Alexander Sep 17, 2021 118 396 1 Share I. Martin Gurri's The Revolt Of The Public is from 2014, which means you might as well read the Epic of Gilgamesh. It has a second-edition-update-chapter from 2017, which might as well be Beowulf . The book is about how social-media-connected masses are revolting against elites, but the revolt has moved forward so quickly that a lot of what Gurri considers wild speculation is now obvious fact. I picked up the book on its "accurately predicted the present moment" cred, but it predicted the present moment so a

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