Book Review: Tocqueville and Democracy in the Internet Age

Tocqueville and Democracy in the Internet Age by C. Jon Deloguge
This book is a critical journey through the reflections of Tocqueville on American Democracy. and questions practical adaptation of its ideals. Like, "how can living together work out to our mutual benefit?".
Chapter 1 explains Tocqueville's ideas, and the next one discusses the relevance of those in the present times. Further chapters examine questions like the meanings of democracy, its fate, and traces history of ideal democratic shakeups. Like that of accommodating racial differences, of voting rights to all, of women's issues like equal wage, discrimination, as well as of sexism and things like gay marriage. The Internet and its effects come next, which analyzes things like alternate reporting of events and issues, blogging, group polarization, easy surveillance, or cyber bullying. In this connection, the author also notes that people shall put up with the most oppressive laws without complaint, as if they did not feel them. But they are likely to reject those laws violently when the oppression takes a downturn. (Is this what really happened in the revolutions of the past?. If so, in present times too, it is a possibility, though yet to happen) 

I find the book's view on 'tyranny of democracy' quite noteworthy! 
Over its 'subjects', government shall assume sole responsibility for securing their pleasure and watching over their fate. It is absolute, meticulous, regular, provident, and mild. It would resemble paternal authority if only its purpose were the same, namely, to prepare men for manhood. But on the contrary, it seeks only to keep them in childhood irrevocably. It likes citizens to rejoice, provided they only think of rejoicing in the governments' way. It works willingly for their happiness but wants to be the sole agent and only arbiter of that happiness. It provides for their security, foresees and takes care of their needs, facilitates their pleasures, manages their most important affairs, directs their industry, regulates their successions, and divides their inheritances. Why not relieve them entirely of the trouble of thinking, and the difficulty of living?
Every day it thus makes man’s use of his free will rarer and more futile. It circumscribes the action of the will more narrowly, and little by little robs each citizen of the use of his own faculties. So, rather than tyrannize, it inhibits, represses, saps, stifles, and stultifies, and in the end he reduces each nation to nothing but a flock of timid and industrious animals, with the government as its shepherd. This is, what can be called a headless despotism.
What message do I get from this book?
All governments, whether democratic or not, stand to reach a point sooner or later, when, if some mechanism for self-correction do not act, a complete regime change shall follow.
or
When changes are not being implemented or have not gone far enough, the reform itself may become a catalyst for revolution.