The Megapower Elite « Jeffrey C. Goldfarb's Deliberately Considered: "Mills’s concluding sentences strike home in today’s Megapower Elite America, where consumer identity and its values of exclusive distinction have eclipsed the broader sense of citizenship as involving inclusive commonality. “Those who sit in the seats of the high and mighty are selected and formed by the means of power, the sources of wealth, the mechanics of celebrity, which prevail in their society… They are not men shaped by nationally responsible parties that debate openly and clearly the issues this nation now so unintelligently confronts. They are not men held in responsible check by a plurality of voluntary associations which connect debating publics with the pinnacles of decision. Commanders of power unequaled in human history, they have succeeded within the American system of organized irresponsibility.”" - Eugene Halton
This entire piece is a chilling analysis of the leeching of democracy from the people, confirming the common but largely unarticulated sense that we have indeed ceded almost everything to forces that now dominate us inexorably and demonically. We need to gently vote these forces down and out as we recover our senses. Democratic revolution globally is the only response. Nonviolent. Massive. Base on the ontological values of non-idolatry, democracy, tolerance and enabling helpfulness.
