The family provides the army and navy with the best men and boys that it possesses. And, as we have seen, education and science too are becoming mean… - C. Wright Mills

These men have replaced mind with platitude, and the dogmas by which they are legitimated are so widely accepted that no counterbalance of mind prevails against them. They have replaced the responsible interpretation of events with the disguise of events by a maze of public relations.

The idea of the elite as composed of men and women having a finer moral character is an ideology of the elite.

If we accept the Greek's definition of the idiot as an altogether private man, then we must conclude that many American citizens are now idiots. And I should not be surprised, although I don't know, if there were some such idiots even in Germany.