Ep 100 | Why the Elites Have Lost Control | Martin Gurri | The Glenn Beck Podcast
The internet is brutal. Martin Gurri calls it a \u201cgreat mutilator.\u201d Gurri was a global media analyst at the CIA in 2001, right as the internet erupted with what he describes as an \u201cInformation Tsunami.\u201d That year, more information was produced than all information before it. The next year, double. Then double that, and it threw the leadership structure of the world into a \u201cstate of crisis.\u201d Gurri wrote about it in his book, \u201cThe Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium,\u201d\xa0and he joins Glenn to discuss the main issue it created, which we\u2019re still feeling now: The old school elites aren\u2019t the only loud voice in the room anymore. Gurri explains how many of America\u2019s most divisive issues are all connected: cancel culture, corruption in media, nihilism, why people see white supremacists or Antifas everywhere lately. The internet created America\u2019s great divide. But can it also bring us back together?\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices