that the internet has empowered ordinary citizens by giving them new information and tools which they then use to discover the flaws in the systems and institutions that govern their lives once theyve discovered these shortcomings he writes these citizens often rebel tearing down elites and dominant institutions out of anger at having been lied to and withheld fromthe result mr gurri writes is a kind of vengeful nihilism an urge to burn down the establishment without a clear sense of whats supposed to replace itto me that sounds a lot like gamestop retail investors armed with new kinds of tools and information that allow them to compete on equal footing with professionals are looking at the masters of the universe and going really those guys run the marketin other words this is not just a speculative bubble or a stupid prank its an authority crisis and even if gamestop stock crashes or regulators step in and call off the party these disillusioned day traders will keep trying to create chaos for the elites they feel have spent decades profiting at their expensethe rebels may not win in the long run institutional power has a way of reasserting itself after sudden shocks eventually the national guard arrives the studio head gets a backbone and the regulators show up already we are seeing the gamestop brigade running up against the limits of its power on wednesday discord a chat app that reddit day traders had turned into their virtual casino floor banned the wall street bets server citing violations of its hatespeech policy on thursday robinhood an app whose entire public brand consists of stand with the little guy messaging blocked users from buying shares in gamestop and several other stocks that the rwallstreetbets crowd had targetedbut for the reddit day traders the important victory was always the symbolic one they might lose their shirts but theyve sent the message that with enough passion and rocketship emojis a crowd of profane irreverent degenerates again their words not mine can turn the stock market on its headthe hordes are here and wall street will never be the same