284: Peter Zeihan Explains The Geopolitical Landscape
The Pomp Podcast
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Is Technology Driving the Unrest in Nigeria?
As we see more and more countries get to these levels of social unrest, one of the things i've been thinking through is just how technology plays a factor in that rate. If this was happening 30 years ago, it would be much harder for one the government to prevent the spread of the bad they were doing because tes didn't have selphones or communicate as easily. But now it's also much easier for the dissidentsor those who are uprising to rally na kind of move resources and communicate and collaborate. The problem there is that most of their politics are ethic and regional based. And so it doesn't require a huge technological distribution system in order to get these peop riled up
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