Martin Gurri on the public revolt and the rise of information networks

I said that "You are part of 'The Revolt of The Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium.'" Now the author of that book, Martin Gurri, has a good 80000 hours podcast elaborating on the book's themes.

I am still amazed that, when it comes to seducing women (one of the most important skills a man can develop), random guys with stupid pseudonyms like mine are more useful authorities that pretty much anything you learn in school or anything you read in bookstores or see on TV. In this field, in human relations, the guys linked in the sidebar are 100x more useful than the New York Times. Crazy, right?

When it comes to sexual polarity and men/women, most guys learn neutral or outright dysfunctional skills from their families, friends, schools, and social worlds. We have to learn on our own or from a small cadre of outsiders.

Multiply that basic idea across 1000s of worlds and you get to the revolt of the public. Our politics and public life still haven't recovered or reconfigured to the Twitter/Facebook world.