There’s another old interesting thing called the estates of the realm. These are the loudest voices in/on the social sphere, roughly.
With a more classical view one could say with additions that:
- 1st estate: Church and clergy
- 2nd estate: Nobles, elites, magistrates, government administrators or offices
- 3rd estate: Peasants, commoners, or the people
- 4th estate: The press, news, and media gauntlet
- 5th estate: Journalists, technocrats, scientists, and other authoritative figures, influencers, podcasters, and other powerful independent voices alike.
- 6th estate: Corporations and collective corporate powers
If somehow (anything’s possible nowadays) the fourth through sixth become as distrusted as the first and second, then know that for the record I was simply a commoner… just one of the people. ;)