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At its root, the logic is that of the Grand Inquisitor, who bitterly assailed Christ for offering people freedom and thus condemning them to misery. The Church must correct the evil work of Christ by offering the miserable mass of humanity the gift they most desire and need: absolute submission. It must “vanquish freedom” so as “to make men happy” and provide the total “community of worship” that they avidly seek. In the modern secular age, this means worship of the state religion, which in the Western democracies incorporates the doctrine of submission to the masters of the system of public subsidy, private profit, called free enterprise. The people must be kept in ignorance, reduced to jingoist incantations, for their own good. And like the Grand Inquisitor, who employs the forces of miracle, mystery, and authority “to conquer and hold captive for ever the conscience of these impotent rebels for their happiness” and to deny them the freedom of choice they so fear and despise, so the “cool observers” must create the “necessary illusions” and “emotionally potent oversimplifications” that keep the ignorant and stupid masses disciplined and content.

~ Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky Church Democracy Elites Freedom Ignorance Illusions Masses Power Sociedty Submission

It's easy for common people to say what they think about the government. No one listens to them.

~ Ljupka Cvetanova

Ljupka Cvetanova Absurd Aphorism Common People Easy Elite Elites Elitism Elitismi Government Government Abuse Government Quotes Listen No One No One Quotes Politicians Politics Quote Say Say What You Think

[Conventional wisdom] very heavily tends to reflect the preferences and the interests of the elite.

~ Paul Krugman

Paul Krugman Capitalism Conventional Wisdom Economics Economy Elites Greed Money Political Politics Wisdom

They couldn't hurt Gansey. Nothing could hurt him; people who said money couldn't buy everything hadn't seen anyone as rich as the Aglionby boys. They were untouchable, immune to life's troubles. Only death couldn't be swiped away by a credit card.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

Maggie Stiefvater Elites Money Rich Wealth

Economics ought to be a magpie discipline, taking in philosophy, history and politics. But heterodox approaches have long since been banished from most faculties, claims Tony Lawson. In the 1970s, when he started teaching at Cambridge, the economics faculty still boasted legends such as Nicky Kaldor and Joan Robinson. There were big debates, and students would study politics, the history of economic thought. And now? Nothing. No debates, no politics or history of economic thought and the courses are nearly all maths.How do elites remain in charge? If the tale of the economists is any guide, by clearing out the opposition and then blocking their ears to reality. The result is the one we're all paying for.

~ Aditya Chakrabortty

Aditya Chakrabortty Cambridge University Economics Education Elites Post Crash Economics The Guardian

Those who occupy managerial positions in the media, or gain status within them as commentators, belong to the same privileged elites, and might be expected to share the perceptions, aspirations, and attitudes of their associates, reflecting their own class interests as well. Journalists entering the system are unlikely to make their way unless they conform to these ideological pressures, generally by internalizing the values; it is not easy to say one thing and believe another, and those who fail to conform will tend to be weeded out by familiar mechanisms.

~ Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky Conformism Elites Journalism Media

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. Very often, the fear of total permanent war paralyzes the kind of morally oriented politics, which might engage our interests and our passions. We sense the cultural mediocrity around us-and in us-and we know that ours is a time when, within and between all the nations of the world, the levels of public sensibilities have sunk below sight; atrocity on a mass scale has become impersonal and official; moral indignation as a public fact has become extinct or made trivial.

~ C. Wright Mills

C. Wright Mills Elites Power Structures Sociology

Only the elites despise earning money.

~ Newt Gingrich

Newt Gingrich Only Earning Elites
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