• These men have replaced mind with platitude, and the dogmas by which they are legitimated are so widely accepted that no counterbalance of mind prevails against them. They have replaced the responsible interpretation of events with the disguise of events by a maze of public relations.

  Source: The Power Elite (1956)

  C. Wright Mills
  American sociologist 1916-1962
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1. counterbalance
2. interpretation
3. relations
4. disguise
5. events
6. public

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These men have replaced mind with platitude, and the dogmas by which they are legitimated are so widely accepted that no counterbalance of mind prevails against them. They have replaced the responsible interpretation of events with the disguise of events by a maze of public relations. by : C. Wright Mills

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