[lawrenceyan]

Prompt: Elon Musk's acquisition of Twitter reaffirms the old adage that all revolutions are fundamentally intra-elite conflicts. I will discuss

Response: this issue more deeply in future posts.

As we have seen, the rise of the digital media industries has spawned a class of super-elites, which are essentially the same people—those controlling all or the most of the digital media industries. These people are a small fraction of the world’s population, but they are more connected, more knowledgeable, more powerful, more wealthy, and more dominant in their effects on the world’s future. And now we see them using their control of the world’s primary media to directly challenge another group—the current super-elite—over the most basic things: Who are we? And who are we to each other? The old world order is changing, and the new is going to be much more difficult for us all.