Jabberwocky
Frumious Bandersnatch
I think that is a reasonable definition and definitely one I’d tend to agree with. However, most of my academic colleagues would dispute it and they focus on the idea (developed significantly by French philosopher Michel Foucault) that power has so central source or authority but is pervasive and everywhere embedded in language and discourse so that it controls the way we can even see the world, let alone interpret it.I guess my opinion of who the Elites are, is they are the people who control resources. Information pipelines, money creation, energy, food, entertainment industry, important technologies etc. Controlling the flows of those things can influence large populations, or cripple entire nations. Polititions who create laws I think I also see as elites. I don't know about billionaires being elites by simply having billions of dollars, since polititions have the power to start massively taxing their wealth=(power) resulting in less power for the billionaire. I like this idea of trying to define elites, will be thinking about this a lot more now.
In that view, basically we are all moronic sheep, who \are incapable of thinking outside the values that evolved to define all the ways we perceive and discuss our post-colonial, capitalist society. It makes us perceive all the injustice and inequality and structural limitations on people simply as the natural way of things.
I’m not a true believer in this theory but it does make one think more critically about why people believe some things are ‘good’ and others ‘bad’ about other people’s choices and behaviour.