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He's presenting his own musings as some kind of historical record. Utterly unburdened by the need for data to back up his narrative.

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The Internet has finally allowed the wealthy and powerful to converse at the same level and in the same space as your big brother's friend who smokes a lot of weed and knows that the government is suppressing a car that runs on water

Not all bad, then.

I have to admit it's pretty funny that all of the citations in the piece are just more of his own opinions.

Those aren't citations, they're just asides.

Yeah, it's very strange to write an "origins of" essay without citing examples (just Larry Summers?), referencing experts, or showing evidence. This article is just about his feelings. He's not an historian, or a social scientist, and frankly I don't think he's familiar enough with this topic to present an historical overview. It's an unconvincing essay.

I laughed at the beginning when he stated that student movements in the '60s didn't have any real power. Paul, please just take a sociology class or something.

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