There’s also artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth

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About this strange monarchical illusion seeping through our democracy.

What is ‘natural aristocracy’? Is it a matter of how we breed sheep and jackasses? If there is ‘natural aristocracy’ may there be an ‘artificial aristocracy’?

Perhaps the democratically elected PM LHL was alluding to Thomas Jefferson’s : “… there is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents…”

But if PM LHL was indeed alluding to Thomas Jefferson he should at least also quote this of him: “There is also an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents….”

What was Thomas Jefferson’s solution to ‘natural’ and ‘artificial’ aristocracy? “I think the best remedy is exactly that provided by all our constitutions, to leave to the citizens the free election and separation of the aristoi from the pseudo-aristoi, of the wheat from the chaff.”

So, ‘natural aristocracy’ is not self-promotion, in fact it is inevitably entwined with the citizenry. Sure, it is about meritocracy, it is about virtues and talents. But this ‘natural aristocracy’, at least from what I read of Jefferson is also about ethics.

The question then becomes, is the saga with Roy and Amos ethical as a conduct of government in order to instill respect? If they have earned it liked what PM LHL claimed, why the extra judicial process to uphold it? If ‘natural aristocracy’ is earned and respected, and it is a constitutional process and it is entwined to a electorate why not leave this political environment organic?

Unless it is not a ‘natural aristocracy’ but an ‘artificial’ one; one of incumbency, complacency, obfuscation, MSM ranking at 153 and world’s best paid politicians.

Second, about aristocracy, E.M. Forster said it best:
http://www.tremeritus.com/2015/07/05...lth-and-birth/


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