“People with advantages are loathe to believe that they just happen to be people with advantages. They come readily to define themselves as inherently worthy of what they possess; they come to believe themselves 'naturally' elite; and, in fact, to imagine their possessions and their privileges as natural extensions of their own elite selves.” C. Wright Mills, The Power Elite "The acceptance of near-indigency of the mass of the citizens as the price to be paid for the highest stage of prosperity was accompanied by very different human attitudes. Townsend righted his emotional balance by indulging in prejudice and sentimentalism. The improvidence of the poor was a law of nature, for servile, sordid, and ignoble work would otherwise not be done. Also, what would become of the fatherland unless we could rely on the poor? "For what is it but distress and poverty which can prevail upon the lower classes of the people to encounter all the horrors which await them on the tempestuous ocean or on the field of battle?" Karl Polanyi, The Great Transformation, 1944 "And the brute was given a mouth for uttering haughty and blasphemous words, and was allowed to exercise authority for forty-two months." Revelation 13:5 “Each day we are becoming a creature of splendid glory, or one of unthinkable horror.” C. S. Lewis "And because of the increase in lawlessness, the love of most will grow cold." Matthew 24:12
