... Anything gestated on a frontier became problematic to the sedentary British establishment.
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... "Homesteading leads to private space programs and pirate islands -- within no time they've become completely ungovernable."
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Because the cheese and wine is better, and since at least the mid-80s we’ve had a bourgeois-consumptive model of class in the UK. Identity as liberal comes far behind identity as someone who knows the difference between Manchego & Roquefort.
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Back when patriotism existed, an Englishman was willing to switch from sherry to port if such was demanded by his nation's interests!
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They always have been. At least before 1950 - as George Orwell pointed out ("In left-wing circles it is always felt that there is something slightly disgraceful in being an Englishman"). But it goes back far before then, to the Norman Conquest. Europe = Aristocratic.
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Chesterton is wired on this. On the one hand, he defends the attachment of the English common folk to their traditional ways against the de-anglisizing efforts of the elites.
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Thought you might be interested of this American Sun series: https://theamericansun.com/2019/07/08/the-eternal-anglo-part-i/ …, there are 3 more to it on the site.
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They're suicidal and they want to take everyone down with them
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‘In England patriotism takes different forms in different classes, but it runs like a connecting thread through nearly all of them. Only the Europeanized intelligentsia are really immune to it.’
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