I really like this article. I often find myself displaying many of these same tendencies. The article hints at a class war that the general population is unaware of because (cue absurd paranoia) the people in power always have us distracted the from important problems. I dislike protestors that smoke pot and play guitar rather than studying/obtaining the skills required to better society, but the occupy movement was on to the problem. Big corporations and money run the government and, as a whole, the general public lacks the funds to change it. We need to educate, infiltrate, and modify. The problem isn't that young people can't make change, it's that after they put in the leg work to do so they want the monetary reward that everyone else in that position gets so the cycle never changes. Luckily there is at least one Snowden. tl;dr
I just downloaded the book; im excited to read it