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Dont call me Shirley

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20. The power elite have been using all these same tricks and treasons upon us for thousands of years

Tue Jan 26, 2016, 09:52 PM

Jan 2016

They are quite adept at their deceit, fear mongering, war making, and subjugation of the masses. Religion is used to keep us honest and believing in goodness, so they have millions of followers to deceive and abuse. The majority of the masses must become aware of the elite's power games in order to change society. We must develop a "fool us once, we don't get fooled again" intelligence. So yes, knowledge is the key to ending the power elite's thousands year reign of terror.

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C. Wright Mills: Sociological Imagination and the Power Elite [View all] Octafish Jan 2016 OP

First read Mills assigned by my PoliSc prof Howard Zinn leveymg Jan 2016 #1

That must have been one heck of a class. Octafish Jan 2016 #2

A class project -- organizing student protests@ '81 Reagan Inaugur - earned me an A and an FBI File. leveymg Jan 2016 #5

''We have more will than wallet.'' -- George Herbert Walker Bush inaugural address Octafish Jan 2016 #8

I've been wondering about Poppy Bush. By many accounts his IQ is/was librechik Jan 2016 #33

"knowledge was the crucial element to social change" antigop Jan 2016 #3

Exactly. Thus all the propaganda instead of knowledge. Octafish Jan 2016 #4

Octa...just got through reading The Power Elite.... clarice Jan 2016 #6

One thing I know: Mills wrote about the Military Industrial Complex before there was such a term. Octafish Jan 2016 #13

Yes, he was prescient in that respect.nt clarice Jan 2016 #26

These days we get to enjoy the politico-economic wisdom of Tyler Cowen. Octafish Jan 2016 #29

Conservatives went to war against The New Deal. And they won. librechik Jan 2016 #34

It was exactly the same in the ancient Roman Republic. Odin2005 Jan 2016 #7

This message was self-deleted by its author uriel1972 Jan 2016 #11

The elites murdered Caesar, overthrew the Republic, and did themselves in for greed. Octafish Jan 2016 #14

The Comitatus Act was briefly repealed during the Katrina aftermath... Eleanors38 Jan 2016 #31

Power Elite was assigned reading in my poli sci days. Read this from Robert Reich: groovedaddy Jan 2016 #9

Reich reminds us Princeton study looked at US political scene before Citizens United. Octafish Jan 2016 #15

Yep. Me too at U of F, but not at U of T. Eleanors38 Jan 2016 #32

Studied him as an undergrauate malaise Jan 2016 #10

Love the guy. Octafish Jan 2016 #16

The first political science book I was assigned in college back in 1981 hifiguy Jan 2016 #18

Have you found Parenti's theses to be confirmed by events over the past 35 years, hifiguy? Octafish Jan 2016 #19

To quote Austin Powers, hifiguy Jan 2016 #21

yes, the triangle of power, the illusion of democracy, and the inactionary masses, nt amborin Jan 2016 #12

Now the gangsters have nukes. Octafish Jan 2016 #23

Mills was decades ahead of his time. hifiguy Jan 2016 #17

That explains why his story is seldom told any more, as JFK, who also addressed class and power... Octafish Jan 2016 #27

The steel crisis put Jack Kennedy at or near the top of hifiguy Jan 2016 #37

The power elite have been using all these same tricks and treasons upon us for thousands of years Dont call me Shirley Jan 2016 #20

And the talking heads on tee vee wonder, ''What's the problem?'' Octafish Jan 2016 #28

Thanks for your always enlightening posts, OF. Dont call me Shirley Jan 2016 #35

Okay, have read all your comments and I have not read the jwirr Jan 2016 #22

Not to disrupt this informative post and thread...but re: Bernie KoKo Jan 2016 #25

A simple, few indviduals, yes. But propped up and hoisted on the shoulders of the many. raouldukelives Jan 2016 #24

When Mill tried to get his PE published at U. of Texas Press, the book was rejected.... Eleanors38 Jan 2016 #30

Octafish! This is a Great Watch to Add: "Professor Colin Samson on C. Wright Mills" KoKo Jan 2016 #36

Thank you, KoKo! Octafish Jan 2016 #38

As you have noticed..They aren't "Customers"..anymore.... KoKo Jan 2016 #39