Interesting piece on inter-elite competition. I suspect that many of the legacy institutions will be propped up by wealthy donors or advertising from large corporations, and those donors/corporations will reorient those institutions to their priorities. The legacy institutions will depend less on money from the public and will become boutique projects of the wealthy, with a large segment of the public fleeing those organizations to find new outlets that address their concerns.
I agree--and I think those trends are already here. Hence the search for, or the activity behind, new institutions and outlets of all kinds. Large implications for the commonweal, the common good, what the public sees as better serving them, and also that gives them voice and agency.
Interesting piece on inter-elite competition. I suspect that many of the legacy institutions will be propped up by wealthy donors or advertising from large corporations, and those donors/corporations will reorient those institutions to their priorities. The legacy institutions will depend less on money from the public and will become boutique projects of the wealthy, with a large segment of the public fleeing those organizations to find new outlets that address their concerns.
I agree--and I think those trends are already here. Hence the search for, or the activity behind, new institutions and outlets of all kinds. Large implications for the commonweal, the common good, what the public sees as better serving them, and also that gives them voice and agency.
--Craig