Vincent Bevins: “The Elites Have Discovered that They Can Rule Us without Legitimacy”

In the months between 2011 and 2015, before Trump even broke twice into the White House and Elon Musk on Twitter, before Putin or Erdogan modified the constitutions of their countries to arrogate unusual powers, before Russia and Israel were pleased to invade the neighbor, before the booms of artificial intelligence, ultra-right, bullies and false news campaigns, before the daily attacks on the press and democracy, before all these drunkenness o…

By Humberto del Pozo López Vincent Bevins: «The elites have discovered that they can govern us without legitimacy (and we, traumatised, give them power)» Tahrir Square, 15-M, Occupy Wall Street... The most viral image of the 2010s was a global meme: streets taken, countries paralyzed and a generation that believed that [...] La entrada Protests, trauma and tyrants: When the elites discovered that governing without shame is more profitable it was…