CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY (Kyle Shideler) - The Revolution will not be tweeted
“The Revolution was in the minds of the people, and this was effected, from 1760...
“The Revolution was in the minds of the people, and this was effected, from 1760 to 1775, in the course of fifteen years before a drop of blood was drawn at Lexington.” –John Adams to Thomas Jefferson (1815) It is very doubtful that there should have been a successful American Revolution if the colonists had the opportunity to avail themselves of Twitter or TikTok. If Samuel Adams and John Hancock had a video podcast, I suspect we would all still be speaking the King’s English. This view runs counter to the populist instincts dominating political discourse today –and runs afoul of the utopianism of the technologists who promise us that ubiquitous access to information is the key to liberation.1 Surely, one might argue, if…Open