Re: <nettime> Steven Levy: Joi Ito Explains Why Donald Trump Is Like

[mp <mp@aktivix.org>]

On 08/12/16 01:46, Patrice Riemens wrote:

Joi Ito:

> It’s about working class empowerment. This election was more
> like the Arab Spring than it was like some well-orchestrated,
> well-designed political maneuver.

The thing about people in such power positions is that they are
often ignorant - structurally given in the organisational sense well
explained in Manufacturing Consent - or plainly don't give a toss.
Arab Spring? Well... what exactly was that?

Could it have been any of these things?

http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-arab-spring-made-in-the-usa/5484950

http://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2011/04/official-arab-spring-subversion-us.html



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