Revolt of the Public | Book Summary 

Wow. Just ran into your channel while searching for Gurri. What a nice review and also great selection of books you’ve reviewed! Subbed immediately before your review was over!Looking forward to your past and future content! Cheers!

an interesting and fruitful way to think about (some of) those "procedures" (6:30) of the power systems is by way of the concept of "controlling processes" articulated by Laura Nader (prof. emeritus anthropology, berkeley. and Ralph Naders sister). It seems as though every system is loaded with them, partly by necessity, sometimes coercive.

Another book to read.

The invention of the Printing Press had the same effect. The disaffected could put out what we would call today 'flyers' promoting some alternative view became easier and destabilised Europe for many years. Which segues nicely into the makeup of these dissenting groups; the first 'Anarchists' were the printers, a prestigious role at the time, operating at the 'cutting edge' of technology (and by extrapolation life and the future). Their motto 'By destruction I build'. “Destruam et ædificabo”. Nowadays the adopted function of those whom you described as the 'educated'. A clever society would more likely want to repurpose rather than destroy. However the continuance of the idea of the essential necessity of a ruling class, or any centralised power base based on (even a temporary) hierarchy - is according to History the locus of the problem. The very thing that Democracy was 'designed' to address. Baron Acton also pointed out that Power was corrupting in and of itself; an addictive, mind-altering, hallucinogenic 'toxin' in modern parlance. Which is unfortunately true in every case, no human ever born or to be born is immune to the effects of experiencing Power. Another view of Democracy is to posit that it is the acknowledgement that only the combined common sense of a responsible population could do the job of maintaining a system because they will be more adept at anticipating the unintended consequences of poor policy and law; and if not they can just as quickly reverse those errors, and pay for them, and learn. The depth of common sense being the key element in any society's progress. Hence only the system of Democracy that can tap into the common weal, with great confidence, is suitable for human society. Thus a large society can make good use of a democratically-informed administration but they cannot make good use of a government. ps: ThouTube is till banning my website. I'm in the process of a one-sided email exchange with them to reverse the ban.

The Revolt of the Public is one of the most influential books that I've ever read. Walter Lippmann's The Phantom Public is a worthy companion to Gurr's book. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Phantom_Public