http://thebaffler.com/notebook/2012/04/omniscient_gentlemen_of_the_atlantic.
Privatized version of the CIA's cultural Cold War.
Also, this:
"The Bradley-subsidized chattering class instinctively knows to tune out altogether more articulate assessments of our plight, such as former Intel CEO Andy Grove’s withering indictment of free-market dogma in a summer 2010 Bloomberg Businessweek cover story. Grove blamed the economic malaise on a sick cultural deification of 'the guys in the garage inventing something that changes the world' at the expense of anyone involved in what happened afterward. His lament was the most eloquent tribute to the symbiosis of design and production and imagination and reality I'd read since Mao’s 1937 essay 'On Practice,' which declared 'man's knowledge depends mainly on his activity in material production.'"