Thinkfluencer

It would be easy for an ungenerous observer to conclude that their parliament is little more than the entrepreneurial initiative of a few TED-style thinkfluencers – just another half-formed idea coughed up by smooth talkers with books to sell and consulting gigs to line up.

That's why the first rule of any revolution is to wipe out the intellectuals. Trump is surely already dreaming of the vast logging camp he will fill with the Republican thinkfluencers who are at the moment making a show of being the last holdouts.

The emotional underpinnings of this economy have been best theorized by Venkatesh Rao, a 46-year-old writer and business consultant, who has become something of a negative futurist, a thinkfluencer’s thinkfluencer.