"We’ve been saturated with cultural images and a kind of cultural deification of wealth and those who have wealth. They present people of immense wealth as somehow leaders, oracles even. We don’t grasp internally what an oligarchic class is finally about, or how venal and morally bankrupt they are. We need to recover the language of class warfare to grasp what is happening to us. And we need to shatter this that somehow if, as Obama says, we work hard enough and study hard enough, we can be one of them."
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Chris Hedges, interviewed by , “The Pathology of the Super-Rich” November 23, 2014
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