Prestige Is The Shadow Of

Nobody Talks More Of Free Enterprise And Competition And Of The Best Man Winning Than The Man Who Inherited His Father's Store Or Farm.

The Point Is That We Are Among Those Who Cannot Get Their Mouths Around All The Little Yeses That Add Up To Tacit Acceptance Of A World Run By Crackpot Realists And Subject To Blind Drift. And That, You See, Is Something To Which We Do Belong; We Belong To Those Who Are Still Capable Of Personally Rejecting. Our Minds Are Not Yet Captive.

Any Contemporary Political Re-statement Of Liberal And Socialist Goals Must Include As Central The Idea Of A Society In Which All Men Would Become Men Of Substantive Reason, Whose Independent Reasoning Would Have Structural Consequences For Their Societies, Its History And Thus For Their Own Life Fates.

For The Corporation Executives, The Military Metaphysic Often Coincides With Their Interest In A Stable And Planned Flow Of Profit; It Enables Them To Have Their Risk Underwritten By Public Money; It Enables Them Reasonably To Expect That They Can Exploit For Private Profit Now And Later, The Risky Research Developments Paid For By Public Money. It Is, In Brief, A Mask Of The Subsidized Capitalism From Which They Extract Profit And Upon Which Their Power Is Based.

By The Power Elite, We Refer To Those Political, Economic, And Military Circles Which As An Intricate Set Of Overlapping Cliques Share Decisions Having At Least National Consequences. In So Far As National Events Are Decided, The Power Elite Are Those Who Decide Them.