Finishing school will teach basic things like being rude, conditioning to believe in your bones you can never be wrong, dressing frumpy-expensive, cultivating Epsteins, etc.
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Kidding aside, while the virtues of a monarchy are kinda theoretical and depend on the reality distortion field of a fragile bit of magical thinking, hereditary nobility has some interesting properties (good or bad) that don’t seem to exist in technocratic institutionalism.
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Like dark age survivability But it has to be genuinely arbitrary, without even a whiff of justification. So billionaires as de facto nobility doesn’t work, no matter what Americans think. It’s not arbitrary enough.
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Basically a thread of civilization justified by nothing more than near-naked hobbesianism, ready to step in if more idealistic institutions weaken
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Needs a Reverse Hunger Games element though to weed out the failsonshttps://twitter.com/vgr/status/1201205015752298497?s=21 …
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How are basic sanity and presentability judged, what are the criteria? Why have the presentability as a criteria at all, can be very very subjective...
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By incumbent nobility via a sort of debutant ball (except gender neutral) of course, not by you proles
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Reverse Hunger Games
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are there silly ceremonies, or is it a soulless bureaucratic process?
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