Sublime

Great Groups have a tendency to give rise to others.

Ortega held the process to be the driving force of history. The “reciprocal action between the masses and select minorities,” he wrote, “is the fundamental fact of every society and the agent of its evolution for good or evil.” Ortega’s masses we now call the public. By “select minorities” he meant the admirable few: elites who, at their best, lavi

to have a sense of the present, especially at the social level, there must be coherence between experience and expectations.

Great Groups always have an enemy.

Oppie had an almost uncanny way of appearing at crucial moments in the complex process.

social-sciencescholars make human beings the object of study. If human behavior patterns do, infact, exist, then observation must be as objective as possible. In other words, thesocial scientist, like the natural scientist, must establish consensus on the basis ofwhat is observed.

In 1917, the sociologist Max Weber argued that “the fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the disenchantment of the world

central arena for societal communication where the citizenry expresses opinions, debates problems of general concern and develops collective solutions.

Unified Theories of Cognition,