[2ndDivisionVet]

So you don’t believe that a certain class of people are at the top of the pyramid and control most cultures?

[cripplecreek]

A group of elites is central to progressivism going back to at least Wilson. George Creel outright said the world needs to be run by a group of elites but the people must feel like they’re in charge.

[cripplecreek]

My mistake. It wasn't George Creel but his contemporary and co propagandist Walter Lippman.

Early on Lippmann said the "bewildered herd," his way of referring to the masses, must be governed by “a specialized class whose interests reach beyond the locality." This class is composed of experts, specialists and bureaucrats. The experts, who often are referred to as "elites," were to be a machinery of knowledge that circumvents the primary defect of democracy, the impossible ideal of the "omnicompetent citizen".

[ifinnegan]

“So you don’t believe that a certain class of people are at the top of the pyramid and control most cultures?”

Not really.

That’s rather vague as well. I certainly think there are people or groups with too much influence.

[ifinnegan]

“So you don’t believe that a certain class of people are at the top of the pyramid and control most cultures?”

Not really.

That’s rather vague as well. I certainly think there are people or groups with too much influence.

[freedumb2003]

>>So you don’t believe that a certain class of people are at the top of the pyramid and control most cultures?<<

Those of us up there really don’t like to talk about it too much...