> “I think people who are particularly attuned to the levers by which society actually works understand that we are skating on really thin cultural ice right now,” Antonio García Martínez

I know this is not the focus of the article, but this statement reads like someone noticing something is going on outside their own comfy privileged bubble, and then concluding they know more about about it than the people who are in the middle of said events.

Sure, being able to step back and look at something from some distance is necessary to reflect and figure out what is going on, but I don't get the impression that that is what is happening here.