I just watched a television programme on the rich and famous called 'Posh Life' which featured the prestigious magazine TATLER which has been chronicling the rich since 1901.
What is interesting, but sad, is the not so surprising attitude of the privileged classes. One can almost smell the air of insoucient superiority it's so evidently tangible in this programme.
This overweening mind funk that because one has money and land, one is somehow superior to other people...is a terrible indictment of man's tendency towards arrogance, conceit and pride.
The thing i found most disheartening, was the inculcated brainwashing of children who come through the boarding school system thinking that because they went to some fancy-schmancy public school they are in effect 'Homo Superior.'
One young girl, on going to her first Tatler ball/dance, remarked on the safety aspect of not having to meet the wrong sort of boy/person there, implying that there would only be her 'class' of people in attendence.
This attitude lingered on right throughout the programme as the Tatler-ites talked at length about how spiffingly good life was for them growing up with privilege. No worrying about crime, drugs, violence, or money problems for them, brought up in their little unreal bubble world.
What was patently evident was that seemingly above all else, they all had one thing in common...the worship of mammon! Everything was all about the right family, education, class, status and how much money you have....and they positively revel in it!
Barbarians at the Door...The Plebs Are Among Us!
One elderly gentleman toff remarked philosophically yet sadly that in the old days, the upper classes only rubbed shoulders with their own kind and nowadays...shock, horror...they have to contend with the nouveau riche and the self made man who presumably doesn't know a fish knife from a Bull's foot and who probably couldn't spell etiquette, but knows how to make a pile of money!
So nowadays, the top crust of the societal pie is an amalgam of old money and privileged classes, self made millionaires/billionaires, pop and film stars and wealthy industrialists.
The social demographic may have changed, but the goal of earning and amassing more and more of the green stuff never does.
One Tatler-ite engaged in running of the magazine, commented on how some of her clients can just walk in off the street to some jewellery store and purchase the most expensive watches costing up to £100.000 plus!
How nice for them eh? Considering most people, not just in the UK, but around the globe are working in jobs that have them doing all the hours under the sun, have zero hour contracts and pay very little in return for their hard labour....I'm left with an extremely 'sour' taste in my mouth at these vain, shallow people who barely can be classed as 'human' beings. I think it's time for a class revolution again! Enjoy your cake Marie Antionette...it may just be your last!
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