August 28, 2010

links for 2010-08-28

  • (the tip of another iceberg spotted, bearing down upon us)
  • (from NewGeography) "...The old elite of aristocratic parasites, Church of England drones, and their snobbish retainers like elite lawyers and professors despised upwardly mobile arrivistes, although their children and grand-children might become socially acceptable if they abandoned "trade" for the lifestyle of genteel rentiers and were laundered through public schools like Eton and Oxbridge... As British industry shrank under American and German competition, the City of London became even more important. Finance was a clean business, untainted by the grime and odor of the factory, and could be practiced by gentlemen..."
Posted by oook at August 28, 2010 07:01 AM