Elite Panic

[thewayne]

I picked up this interesting bit of tid from Bruce Schneier's blog, actually his LJ feed from his blog:

The term "elite panic" was coined by Caron Chess and Lee Clarke of Rutgers. From the beginning of the field in the 1950s to the present, the major sociologists of disaster -- Charles Fritz, Enrico Quarantelli, Kathleen Tierney, and Lee Clarke

Comments

[silveradept]

Well, in a previous life, we'd have politicians afraid of their jobs because if they weren't populist, they'd get voted out.
Now, they're just afraid of the corporations not donating millions to them.

The Occupy movement might have been the thing the elites were afraid of, but the problem is the elites were able to use the police to destroy that before it got anywhere.