I listened carefully, but the technical jargon went over my head.

It's almost like the Bernie Sanders guys are scared! The Bernistas are out in force!

Do ideals, symbols and beliefs lead people to act as they do? Or are the wellsprings of action and the drivers of history less ethereal: money, fear, the thirst for power, circumstance and opportunity, with culture as an afterthought? Scholars in the first camp are culturalists; in the second, materialists.

I have done as thou badest me.