Prestige Is The Shadow Of Money And

No One Can Be Truly Powerful Unless He Has Access To The Command Of Major Institutions, For It Is Over These Institutional Means Of Power That The Truly Powerful Are, In The First Instance, Truly Powerful . . .

The More We Understand What Is Happening In The World, The More Frustrated We Often Become, For Our Knowledge Leads To Feelings Of Powerlessness. We Feel That We Are Living In A World In Which The Citizen Has Become A Mere Spectator Or A Forced Actor, And That Our Personal Experience Is Politically Useless And Our Political Will A Minor Illusion.

To Really Belong, We Have Got, First, To Get It Clear With Ourselves That We Do Not Belong And Do Not Want To Belong To An Unfree World. As Free Men And Women We Have Got To Reject Much Of It And To Know Why We Are Rejecting It.

Commercial Jazz, Soap Opera, Pulp Fiction, Comic Strips, The Movies Set The Images, Mannerisms, Standards, And Aims Of The Urban Masses. In One Way Or Another, Everyone Is Equal Before These Cultural Machines; Like Technology Itself, The Mass Media Are Nearly Universal In Their Incidence And Appeal. They Are A Kind Of Common Denominator, A Kind Of Scheme For Pre-scheduled, Mass Emotions.

The Broadening Of The Economic Order Which Came To Be Seated In The Individual Property Owner... Dramatized By Jefferson's Purchase Of The Louisiana Territory... "the Supremacy Of Corporate Economic Power... Consolidated By The Supreme Court Decision Of 1886 Which Declared That The Fourteenth Amendment Protected The Corporation... [the New Deal, Leading To], Within The Political Arena, As Well As In The Corporate World Itself, Competing Centers Of Power That Challenged Those Of The Corporate Directors.