But I don’t understand why you’re bringing up strivers who sacrificed in war? The point is that elites like GHWB have almost always had means to avoid sacrifice and so their choice of it is of a different character than say, my grandfather’s.
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I did an MA paper on this -- I'll see if I can dig it out!
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You see it reflected as well in fiction - the public servants in Yes, Minister (Sir Humphrey, Bernard) are classics graduates of Oxford. Hacker, the Minister, went to the LSE.
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