If you haven't read C.S. Lewis' That Hideous Strength lately (or ever), I highly recommend it. Lewis perfectly describes the inner workings and true allegiances of the intelligencia and elite socialites.

"Why you fool, it's the educated reader who CAN be gulled. All our difficulty comes with the others. When did you meet a workman who believes the papers? He takes it for granted that they're all propaganda and skips the leading articles. He buys his paper for the football results and the little paragraphs about girls falling out of windows and corpses found in Mayfair flats. He is our problem. We have to recondition him. But the educated public, the people who read the high-brow weeklies, don't need reconditioning. They're all right already. They'll believe anything." -Miss Hardcastle in That Hideous Strength by C.S. Lewis