It's a great book, although some of it is very much of its time in terms of political references. The basic idea is very simple - our society is being organize

It's a great book, although some of it is very much of its time in terms of political references. The basic idea is very simple - our society is being organized economically, politically and socially according to models, and the effects of those models are being measured by those implementing them through polling and other indirect methods. This means that what we experience in everyday life is structured according to models that have drifted away from whatever they were meant to model originally over time. And that these groundless illusions are where what looks like politics is taking place. There's more but that's the gist of it.