"In a more homogeneous society, the growing concentration of power and wealth
in the hands of a privileged minority might be expected to produce a strong
reaction on the part of the majority. In present-day America, however, no
such reaction is likely to take place.  Although heavily outnumbered, the
unified few rest secure in the knowledge that any insurgency will almost
certainly dissipate in quarrels among the fragmented many rather than in open
rebellion; during the 1992 Los Angeles riots, black, Hispanic, and white
rioters turned on Korean middlemen rather than march on Beverly Hills.  The
belligerent guests on the never-ending talk show, urged on by the screaming
audience, will continue to enact allegorical conflicts, while, off-camera and
upstairs, the discreet members of the class that does not exist ponder the
choice of marble or mahogany for the walls of the executive suite from which
they command."
    -- Michael Lind

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