Among the number of significant social forces in the apparatus of daily life one encounters in the more developed world (US, Canada, Europe, etc) is the array of institutions functioning in those societies that serve, ultimately, to convey the opinions or positions of the average citizen to the persons and political parties in positions of rule. The machinations of these institutions, and their width and depth, are in play virtually daily in those societies; documentaries and motion pictures are made about them; they achieve elaborate