, “in a period of increasing difficulties, the weaker elements in the social body tend to polarize around a rising star.” In the transformation of the year two thousand, the rising star will be the Sovereign Individual. As the nation-state system breaks down, risk-averse persons who formerly would have sought employment with government may find an alternative in affiliating as retainers to the very rich."
This is another of the controversial implications from The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age
by James Dale Davidson & Lord William Rees-Mogg, Simon & Schuster, 1997Is it really so?
