Earl Wysong's The Invisible Empire

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With Work of Robert Perrucci and Earl Wysong, “The Invisible Empire” has explained how the “super” upper class has total control of the social influences that one receives within society. Within the short essay it explained how important this particular grow is within society as it gives it demands. It achieves such higher order of status that their opinion becomes the way of law. The “super class” is also referred to the invisible empire due to its ability to co-exist among society without public attention. Within the article it explained that the super class has Power and Control due to much finical support they are able to give into publics, the more one gives from the superior group, the more they get out of return. The invisible empire

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