Reading Mills again

Because what else do you do when you happen to have textbooks still lying around from your first year of college? 

"We cannot assume today that men must in the last resort be governed by their own consent.  Among the means of power that now prevail is the power to manage and to manipulate the consent of men.  That we do not know the limits of such power - and that we hope it does have limits - does not remove the fact that much power today is successfully employed without the sanction of the reason or the conscience of the obedient." --C. Wright Mills, "The Sociological Imagination," 1959

unrelatedly...
I just opened a lovely Christmas present from someone who I haven't talked to in ages.  I had to open it early because I was so surprised that she'd be sending me something, I had to know what it was.  I'm stunned, amazed, confused, and ... feel guilty, of course.  I have to wonder if she mixed me up with someone else.  Now I'd better find something for her.  Eep!

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A meme from daegaer - ( Being the first sentence of the first public post of each month. )