Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: John B. Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.tech Subject: Re: People Without Meaningful Lives Seek Power Over Others Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2024 23:38:12 +0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 43 Message-ID: References: <0RlBO.3$8bZd.0@fx02.iad> <73tcdjtjcgriesba06fli94g77benov4k5@4ax.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2024 18:38:15 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="07e2bc4b8e69bcfc21915ae697c70358"; logging-data="3588079"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+B7a81EY7u6Ad5QNK1VP2ZBz9q/otp1P0=" User-Agent: ForteAgent/7.10.32.1212 Cancel-Lock: sha1:L7CvN6JFwVCUY/lWQ5kFcGLaxp0= Bytes: 3090 On Tue, 03 Sep 2024 15:37:14 GMT, Roger Merriman wrote: >John B. wrote: >> On Mon, 02 Sep 2024 19:05:35 -0700, Jeff Liebermann >> wrote: >> >>> On Tue, 03 Sep 2024 07:20:32 +0700, John B. >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Not argue but in England, for certain, in the U.S. for perhaps a bit >>>> less, attending the proper schools and as a result speaking with the >>>> proper accent was very important. >>>> In fact I worked with a bloke was spending a large portion of his >>>> salary to keep his daughter in a very (socially) proper British >>>> collage. >>> >>> Going back a few centuries, their landed aristocracy was very >>> different from today's commercial aristocracy. For example, they were >>> not expected to do any form of paying work. Money came from the >>> possession of land in the form of crops and rents. The disparity >>> between the wealthy and the poor was sufficiently huge that they >>> rarely had to think about "earning a living" and other such mundane >>> activities. Similarly, their son's grew up in the same environment >>> and rarely needed to think about acquiring skills and getting their >>> hands dirty. >> >> Well, of course excepting the sons that attended Sandhurst and then >> joined a "good" Regiment. And then went to N. Ireland. >> >By time the Troubles had started or frankly there was a Northern Ireland, >changes in society had begun, hence the national trust various grand houses >which where donated to the state around same time as the family couldn’t >afford them. > >Roger Merriman The Battle of the Boyne, 1690 (:-? -- Cheers, John B.