The power elite is composed of men whose positions enable them to transcend the ordinary environments of ordinary men and women; they are in positions to make decisions having major consequences.

热闹的场合可以锻炼心境，安静可以养心，坐时可以守心，行动时可以考验心灵，言时省心，动时制心。

The value or worth of a man is, as of all other things, his price; that is to say, so much as would be given for the use of his power.

If facts, logic, and scientific procedures are all just arbitrarily "socially constructed" notions, then all that is left is consensus--more specifically peer consensus, the kind of consensus that matters to adolescents or to many among the intelligentsia.