a reaction to...................

 

There is something new and voracious in the world that feeds on individual agency, and is basically imperialistic in its aspirations. . . . 

. . .the idea of sovereignty has suddenly reemerged as politically salient.  If we take the political anger of populist movements at their word, it is a reaction to the imperiousness of political elites and corporate forces in pressing agendas of progress that seek to delegitimize the concerns of those deemed regressive.

-Matthew Crawford,  Why We Drive: On Freedom, Risk and Taking Back Control