Essay On The Power Elite

The Demolition of the Power Elite
Who is controlling our society and who are the Power Elite? Investors, the wealthy, the military, and politicians control every aspect of our social construction. The Power Elite are those people who occupy society's top positions of power. They are leaders for the middle and lower socioeconomic classes. They are the ones that move back and forth in the three realms of our society. The military, the government, the economy; they are the elite who control these forces that makes our society function.
For example, a man that is in the military high ranking can move into politics to become a secretary of the state, and then becomes a CEO of a major corporation. The political order was once made up of dozens of states that were weak. But there has been a growth of the government and there is now a uniform set of powers that were previously scattered. The political order is more centralized. The political system is also able to enter every part of the social structure. Cooperation’s fund campaigns, the candidates have opportunities to work for those corporations. The same with the military; the military goes to war and gains profits from obtaining natural resources for the cooperation’s and the cooperation’s give money to the military are three sectors are interlocked with each other.
The power elite are composed of men whose positions enable them to transcend the ordinary environments of ordinary men and women; they are in positions to make decisions that have major consequences; their failure to act, is itself, an act (Higher-Circles Mills pg.4) They exercise their authority, influence, and control of resources within society. They have control over ideas and influence laws that effect our everyday...

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...have become submissive, instead of initiating or challenging the elite powers policies. Men and women in American have become media spectators who cheer on the heroes and boo the villains. We support commercial consumerism, if we do not like a policy we complain about it, but as a society we are taking little or no direct part in the action. Americans have become increasingly self-consumed, alienated and estranged from politics. It can be seen in the rapid decline in electoral participation over the last several decades. Our music, our protest, our media, our freedom have been taken away from the powers that be. Were trained into becoming part of the melting plot were we work for the power elite until we die and become puppets of the system that suppresses our lives as we know it. As a result, the control of our destinies have fallen into the lap of the power elite.