Homo narrans

This story showed up on Feedly. I was just going to post a link to the originating site, but it's gone 404, so I copied it here.

by Richard Fernandez

The basic thesis of Martin Gurri's The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millenium is that "the information technologies of the 21st century have enabled the public, composed of amateurs, people from nowhere, to break the power of the political hierarchies of the industrial age." The result has been "the mass extinction of stories of legitimacy".  Gurri believes this informational meteor strike has caused the political upheaval we see around us.

I think Gurri is spot on.

P.S. The image is of Jupiter.
P.P.S. 'Homo narans' simply means 'man told'.