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The Power Elite by C. Wright Mills

https://www.amazon.com/Power-Elite-C-Wright-Mills/dp/0195133544

Read like, the first page of each of these books.

http://www.amazon.com/Power-Elite-C-Wright-Mills/dp/0195133544/

http://www.amazon.com/Corporation-Pathological-Pursuit-Profit-Power/dp/0743247469/

http://www.amazon.com/Realm-Hungry-Ghosts-Encounters-Addiction/dp/155643880X/

http://www.amazon.com/Globalization-Addiction-Study-Poverty-Spirit/dp/0199588716/

Look at how many people voted in 2014.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/12/opinion/the-worst-voter-turnout-in-72-years.html?_r=0

http://bipartisanpolicy.org/library/2012-voter-turnout/

"Some 93 million eligible citizens did not vote."

http://www.nonprofitvote.org/documents/2013/09/america-goes-to-the-polls-2012-voter-participation-gaps-in-the-2012-presidential-election.pdf

Look at dem numbers.

You are the next generation. Great tv series, btw. You are part of the hope that casts a light upon the world.


https://openlibrary.org/

Also, sorry, skimmed through your post history to perhaps glean what ails you, but perhaps your anxiety/stress stemming from these surrounding issues are increasing the occurrence of a lack of proper airflow/air intake during sleep, and disrupting the process of healing that's supposed to occur during the night, leading to long-term damage to your heart?

Your parents love you for a reason, and you shouldn't feel that resources or money are even a factor in their considerations. They love you, period, and you'll have plenty of time to repay your family/society/whoever you want just through the act of living well.\

Also, there's a lot of technology coming around the corner where organ fabrication/replacement/etc. is going to be a very common/real thing, but that's not to say that you can't still work with your doctor to mitigate symptoms/risks for now.

Take care, friend. Life is a strange journey indeed, but it can be rewarding if you let it be.

Edit: I would say that it's a nice poem, but I cannot agree that the best way to get back at those you feel have slighted you is to cease one's own existence. That would be tantamount to a full surrender. You still have some fight left in you, don't you? Fighting back is the best way to give the bird to all the turds.

For some good reading on this check out "The Power Elite" by CW Mills. Originally he warned of the Triumvirate which consists of Military, Industry, and Government. Later, the theory had been modified to include Media in this complex. Should be required reading. Edit: formatting.

I am somewhat puzzled. Do you mean books published by Academic Presses?

Peter Dale Scott had multiple works published by the University of California Press.

https://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520205192

C Wright Mills wrote the Power Elite, and it is published by Oxford.

https://www.amazon.com/Power-Elite-C-Wright-Mills/dp/0195133544

Domhoff wrote Who Rules America, and Works on the Bohemian Grove.

https://www.amazon.com/Who-Rules-America-William-Domhoff/dp/0139583637

https://www.amazon.com/Bohemian-Grove-other-retreats-ruling-class/dp/0060110481

These are all books by scholars, published by major presses.

Unfortunately, that's not really how it works.

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_and_Hope - (Amazon link)
  
  
• http://www.amazon.com/Anglo-American-Establishment-Quigley-Carroll/dp/0945001010
  
  
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_Elite - (Amazon Link)

You should read " The Power Elite" by C Wright Mills (1956)
https://www.amazon.com/Power-Elite-C-Wright-Mills/dp/0195133544/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1498937538&sr=8-1&keywords=the+power+elite
I think you'd enjoy it, from one cynic to another.

Foucault? Marcuse? Fromm? Habermas? Horkheimer? C. Wright Mills? Friere? Fanon? (just spitballing... I can't remember one who specifically wrote a critique of the military-industrial complex or the effects of the military on capitalist economies).

In the other direction, are you perhaps thinking of Popper's The Open Society and its Enemies? (which I believe is 2-volume) or else Hayek's The Road to Serfdom?

EDIT: The closest book of the names listed above to what you seem to be referring to would be C. Wright Mills's The Power Elite, which is relatively big at 450 or so pages, but not massive and not multi-volume.

Sorry, but I disagree with you.

> are living at or near the absolute apex of human history

This is an arrogant statement. This system of government has its merits, don't get me wrong. But corruption has clearly deeply rooted itself in our political process. I'm not going to ignore that. You can pretend as much as you want that this system is working, but I'm not going to. Because regardless of what issues you present that seem to hold a significant amount of importance to you, or the populace, it doesn't change the reality that regardless of which party is power, the only people who seem to benefit from it are the insanely wealthy. I'm not going to pretend like that doesn't happen.

>> And I feel the political class also views it as such. They don't care what the issues are as long as they get elected.

> Can you support that claim with anything?

The Power Elite

The reality is, dissenting voices aren't allowed. And because I refuse to pick a side and fly my team's flag, my opinion on how our political system operates instantly becomes invalid to those who disagree with me.

But that's okay. There are numerous people who feel the same way that I do, so I don't really need approval from anyone on the internet.

edit: wording/answered a question I missed from you with a comment by me from another conversation on this thread

> This is a fairly arrogant statement for you to make. "Sure, I admit, these things matter to the citizenry, but, in reality, they're trivial." How presumptuous of you to decide for everyone else what's actually important and what isn't.

My opinions are my own and I have the right to think however I please. I hate this phrase, but in the grand scheme of things, most of the issues the public concerns themselves with are trivial and would ultimately be non-existent in a truly free society.