ABSTRACT
This chapter shows that when the chips are down and the facade of statistical tables and endless documentation is seen through, one comes to realize that Ferdinand Lundberg is far more interested in debunking than in understanding modern American society, especially the rich. He is more interested in being entertaining by debunking conspiracies than in making a reasoned analysis. For of course most professors, and especially sociologists, are merely apologists for the hidden members of the American ruling class or oligarchy. Lundberg writes quite correctly, “a large section of disoriented young, neither at school or at work and getting into a variety of headline-making mischief from congregating in unseemly hordes to sedulous extracurricular copulation and drug addiction.” This statement of possible fact is then followed by this explanation: no elected representative ever passed on the decisions that produced these results.
