2024 Author: Howard Calhoun | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 10:16
There is such a strict aristocratic and bourgeois word "establishment". What does this mean? Although it is not often used in speech today, let's take a look anyway.
Origin
It came to us from the English language: the tracing paper was simply removed from the word establishment, which means “foundation” or “establishment” in translation. This is the meaning of the word "establishment."
When is it used
The establishment is called the ruling circles, the political and financial elite, the beau monde, the top of society, shaping and influencing public opinion.
Despite the fact that this term is applicable to all those in power without exception, its original and “natural” purpose is to define and designate a group of people from the political environment. "Political establishment" is a well-established phrase that was used when they wanted to outline in a conversation the circle of people who "make" politics and are in state power.
In the USSR and other communist countries, the term "establishment" (due to understandable ideological considerations) has never been used anywhere. However, the phenomenon itself existed, but the term was used to denote it."nomenclature". He meant the bosses of the ruling Communist Party.
Role in the State
The meaning of the word "establishment" is more or less clear. But how is it integrated into society?
In any country or even in a tribe, this concept is structured according to the existing hierarchy in this enclave. So the establishment is what is always at the very top of this structure. It is, so to speak, a separate society within a society, or rather a society over a society.
Moreover, it is very often impossible to personalize it in detail (when it comes to a full-fledged state), it is so branched, blurred and deepened into all branches of government, including the management of the economy, finance, trade, supervision over the performance of their functions by state bodies, and also in the media.
Separate caste
The establishment - what is it? This is an estate, a caste, which is in all types of power, completely influencing and determining the present and future of the country, respectively, and shaping the life of its population (although people themselves often do not know about this).
However, the establishment can arise in any branch of culture or economy. It can even exist in an ordinary manufacturing plant. And everyone will know that under this word executive and financial directors, engineers, top managers, chief financiers, accountants and lawyers are “coded”. In a word, people in leadership positions.
It should be noted that inIn countries with a corrupt management model, the establishment circle also includes oligarchic clans and “auxiliary” branches serving their interests in power (the prosecutor's office, television, law enforcement agencies, etc.).
History knows many examples of riots and revolutions, the purpose of which was to overthrow the established establishment. Sometimes it worked (but then the revolutionaries themselves eventually became the same “establishment”), more often not. Because they carried nothing but nihilism.
European establishment
Its importance in the politics of all (and not only) European countries is enormous. It is represented by leading and bright politicians, presidents, prime ministers, managers of various departments of the European Union. Of course, among them are Jose Manuel Durao Barroso (President of the European Commission), Baroness Ashton of Upholland - Catherine Margaret Ashton (EU Representative for Security and Foreign Affairs), Herman Van Rompuy (President of the European Council), Angela Merkel (Federal Chancellor of Germany), Stefan Füle (EU Commissioner for Enlargement), Anders Fogh Rasmussen (NATO Secretary General), Martin Schulz (President of the European Parliament), as well as David Cameron, François Hollande, Donald Tusk and others.
The American establishment - what is it?
A completely different kind of elite is emerging in the society of this country. These are people who have a privileged education, an extraordinary intellect, a prominent social position, financial condition, while not leading an idle image.life.
They are united by the same concepts and ideas about personal, social and public values, people with immoral (in their opinion) views on life and norms of behavior are closed to their formed caste. So, they do not accept racists, anti-Semites, homophobes, snobs, mercantile cynics and old-style rich people (nouveau riche and money-grubbers) throwing money left and right. Their purpose is to create and transmit to society new codes and norms of behavior, including social and national tolerance, a “calm” attitude towards the possession of material values, the desire for charity and real (and not formal, as was the case with the old elites) service to society.
The new US establishment was formed by Bill Gates, Stephen Jobs, Tina Brown, Tim Russert, Al Gore, Ken Burns, David Geffen, Maureen Dowd, Stephen Jay Gould, John McCain, Bill Bradley, Lou Reed, Steve Case.
That's more or less everything about the term "establishment". What it is and who it is called, you now know.
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