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Originally Posted by Sigaba
I think that Professor Kagan is underestimating the power of ideas as well as the power of mass popular culture to transmit and to amplify those ideas. I think Kagan discounts the ability of those on the margins to drive historical change at the center.
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Sig, do you feel mass popular culture/social media can change geopolitics, or merely increase the volatility or pace of geopolitical constants?
Take Egypt, at some point assuming basic needs are met, with twitter,social media etc. do these people eventually see themselves as something other than Egyptians on nationalistic lines? Or on the flip side, does popular culture and social media simply accelerate geopolitical constants, i.e. the conditions for revolution in Egypt were there, twitter etc. helped this come about in a single year as opposed to ten?