The intelligence community, moreover, sounded the alarm about proliferation of radical Islamist sites in a 2007 National Intelligence Estimate: warning that, even absent guidance from established terror organizations, the Internet enables "alienated people to find and connect with one another, justify and intensify their anger, and mobilize resources to attack".
In other words, the developments Naím credits with this sea change in power relations – he calls these the "more, mobility, and mentality revolutions" – enabled alienated demographics to escape older definitions of community and the constraints those definitions imposed.
It alienates voters, enables a coterie of highly-self-interested millionaires and corporations to distort our national political discourse, and causes elected officials desperately to curry favor with wealthy supporters, often at the expense of the public interest.
Clearly, Tinder needs to make a change to how this is enabled or risk alienating a portion of its user base before it rolls this out more broadly.
He has alienated his most ardent supporters, enabled his most rabid critics, and lost the youth vote that helped put him in office.
The news cameras' heavy favoring of the inarticulate and the unwashed has encouraged and enabled mainstream America to alienate and tune out family, friends and neighbors standing against a corrupt corporatocracy.
We need to find a way to communicate about these issues, developing a language that enables us all to talk without discomfort and without alienating those who fall on one side or another.
The collapse of leftist unity alienated a large number of left voters and enabled the conservatives to retain control of the National Assembly in the 1978 elections.
Only that would enable angry Muslim youth to make common cause with classes alienated from globalization and render Marx, not Muhammad, a cause célèbre.
This means they can become alienated from broader national and community networks and support that enable access to social and economic resources.
A process for data that actually enables better and more impactful ideation, to empower and inspires creativity rather than alienating, limiting and judging it posthumously.
