George Carlin sums up class structure and the purpose media of divisiveness

The ruling class keeps the lower class fighting so the ruling class can keep on ruling and lower classes are too distracted fighting with each other to notice.

As American financier Jay Gould noted, after hiring strikebreakers to bust up a union, "I can hire one-half of the working class to kill the other half."

This is taken from Carlin's Jammin in New York.