“An inborn force of personality, always present in great teachers, speakers, actors, and politicians, automatically marshals people into ordered groups around a focal point of power. In history the human drive is toward monarchy. Western Culture has produced the best system yet for organizing and taming those king seeking energies: representative democracy, part of our pagan heritage. But our atavistic longings for hierarchy are satisfied by another pagan institution, Hollywood, with its charismatic, imperial stars” — co