The end of power
by Moisés Naím · first published 2013
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Argues that the leaders of today actually have less power than ever before, discussing the changing nature of leadership and the modern dynamics of power. "In The End of Power, award-winning columnist and former Foreign Policy editor Moisés Naím illuminates the struggle between once-dominant megaplayers and the new micropowers challenging them in every field of human endeavor. Drawing on provocative, original research, Naím shows how the antiestablishment drive of micropowers can topple tyrants, dislodge monopolies, and open remarkable new opportunities, but it can also lead to chaos and pa
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Moises Naim, who wrote this article, is a notable Venezuelan dissident (and was a finance minister before Hugo Chavez took over). I'm just about to start his most recent book, "The End of Power," which is about how hard it is to establish and maintain political control as technology decentralizes. It's not going to be the kind of book Maduro (the Venezuelan president) is going to read, but seems…
on “Venezuela Is Falling Apart” ↗"It’s not just that power shifts from one country to another, from one political party to another, from one business model to another, it’s this: Power is decaying" - Moises Naim [The End of Power] The book basically says, it is becoming easier to get power, harder to use it to control others and harder to keep it once you have it.
on “Credit Suisse scandal shakes Zurich’s elite” ↗…banks/ISPs/FB/Google etc are taken at gun point and used for population scale psychological warfare. Kissinger(World Order)/Niall Ferguson(Square and the Tower)/Graham Allison(Thucydides Trap)/Moises Naim(End of Power) say networks of power are more and more unstable similar to 1914. To maintain stability they(irrespective of ideology) keep pandering to their fan clubs and therefore get more and more inflexible. Small…
on “Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions?” ↗…weirdo brain, while very very very bad at processing written words, can process spoken words quite well. I'm usually listening to an audiobook on 1.5 speed most of the day, in fact I'm listening to The End of Power by Moisés Naím as I write this. :)
on “America's biggest new reading trend: obsessed with multitasking via audio books” ↗Maybe Moises Naim's End of Power thesis was right. More complex things get Power becomes easier to acquire, harder to use, easier to loose.
on “Keir Starmer announces his resignation as prime minister” ↗