"Families and churches and schools
adapt to modern life; governments and armies and corporations shape it;
and, as they do so, they turn these lesser institutions into means for
their ends. Religious institutions provide chaplains to the armed forces
where they are used as a means of increasing the effectiveness of its morale
to kill. Schools select and train men for their jobs in corporations and
their specialized tasks in the armed forces. The extended family has, of
course, long been broken up by the industrial revolution, and now the son
and the father are removed from the family, by compulsion if need be, whenever
the army of the state sends out the call. And the symbols of all these
lesser institutions are used to legitimate the power and the decisions
of the big three (The Power Elite, 1956, p. 6).