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WWI played a big role in replacing the older aristocracy, one which still had a sense of community and noblesse oblige, with a newer more ruthless and globalist class of rulers. Even outside of those killed in battle, many old British estates were taxed into oblivion to help pay for the war...

I don't mind them either, in fact every civilization that has ever existed had them. The question is: how do we get the best elites we can?

I agree with this, and that is usually the case to some degree, though I fear that our elites might be a bit too unified, especially prior to Trump's plunge into politics. I'm not sure if I agree. Certainly, there are good qualities that can lead to success - like intelligence, industriousness...

All societies have elites which have vastly disproportionate power. It doesn't matter if those people are lords, CEO's, media moguls, elected officials, warlords, bureaucrats, deep state, generals, bankers, gentry, priests, or what have you. Over the millennia all organized groups of people have...

If equality is to mean equality before the law, then it is a terrible way of expressing the more fundamental concept that certain actions taken against others are wrong. That people have rights. It’s wrong to unjustly kill another human, not because the killer and the victim are equal though. It...

You make some good points. I don't agree that the French Revolution was the source of all of our problems, because plenty of the bad ideas that influenced the French Revolution originated long before and many of the the terrible ideas that are plaguing modern society happened long after the...