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C. Wright Mills’s model, used by Jiang to explain the relationship between the top 1% and the intellectual 10%.
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Power Elite
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He argues that Christianity grew by marrying itself to power through strict hierarchy, allowing it to be co-opted by the power elite.
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Jiang uses C. Wright Mills’s Power Elite to distinguish the indifferent 1% from the 10% intellectual class that curates public opinion and derives status from loyalty to the real power elite.
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"...is that. The people who are doing this. Are not the elite. The people who are doing this. Engaging social control. Are the liberal..."
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"...They know. All their power. Comes from. Their association. With the power elite. Okay. So. On one hand. They are. The ones. That. Who...."
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"Was still allowed. The intellectuals. To. Protest. This is what led. To the Pentagon. Papers. And the publication. Of the Pentagon. Papers. In Washington...."
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"...hierarchy. And that enabled it to be co -opted by the power elite. Okay? So this tells us the fact that he was appointed..."
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"...know, in 1950s, C. Wright Mills wrote a book called the power elite, and he described the structure of power in America. Yeah. And..."
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"...Are. Absolutely. Worthless. And. Discarded. By. AI. They're. Discarded. By. The. Power. Elite. And. The. Sacrifice. Right. So. That's. Why. They're. Working. Over. Time...."
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"...Behind everyone is a fire. And then there are people, the power elite, that have puppets. And they project these puppets onto the wall...."
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"...Why is this necessary from the point of view of the power elite, those who are ruling over this empire? Because we have major..."
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"the power elite or whoever has influence wants to promote this view in order to maintain power or is there is this emergent phenomenon..."
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