Prestige Is The Shadow Of Money And

In The World Of The Celebrity, The Hierarchy Of Publicity Has Replaced The Hierarchy Of Descent And Even Of Great Wealth.

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.

People With Advantages Are Loath To Believe That They Just Happen To Be People With Advantages.

According To Your Belief [christian Clergy], My Kind Of Man — Secular, Prideful, Agnostic And All The Rest Of It — Is Among The Damned. I'm On My Own. You've Got Your God.

The Economy - Once A Great Scatter Of Small Productive Units In Autonomous Balance, Has Become Dominated By Two Or Three Hundred Giant Corporations, Administratively And Politically Interrelated... The Political Order, Once A Decentralized Set Of Several Dozen States With A Weak Spinal Cord, Has Become A Centralized Executive Establishment Which Has Taken Up Into Itself Many Powers Previously Scattered... The Military Order, Once A Slim Establishment In A Context Of Distrust Fed By State Militia, Has Become The Largest And Most Expensive Feature Of Government.