If you read to page 2 you'll understand a little better. Even today, the way people think is derived from how the most prominent people think, whose ideas/meth

If you read to page 2 you'll understand a little better. Even today, the way people think is derived from how the most prominent people think, whose ideas/methods/conclusions/biases all drip down to the masses. Now, it's Harvard-educated producers and writers working through Hollywood. Then, it was people like TS Eliot and Ezra Pound working through literay magazines. No, they have no power today, but Commentary Magazine (read its byline) is interested in them as a case study. The manner by which high-level thinkers influence the "proles" is largely technical. When schools and churches and magazines lost power, it was mainly because of the invention of television and movies. That influence is changing again.