Actually, that's not entirely true. As was mentioned, Geoffrey Munn (a Grammar School chap) didn't entirely approve of the social conditions in the pre WWI era, despite his love of, and fascination with, the craftsmanship and artistry of Faberge. He even mentioned that he benefitted from the social mobility in his era in comparison to the eras previous.
Also many of the 'Nobs' attending had more than a cursory acquaintance with the notion of social justice: some of them devoting their lives to 'good' works of various kinds.
This makes me wonder if the fault lies mainly with the arriviste money grabbing social climbing grocer's daughters of Grantham, and their ilk. I'm sure the traditional upper classes have a rump of semi-fascistic types who could think of no greater pleasure than knouting a few peasants to death before a hearty lunch, but I'm beginning to think of them as being in a minority. The problem with me is I'm not actually upper class, more, like George Orwell, lower-upper-middle class, if you see what I mean: and that group are amongst the most mean, rapacious, and grasping, of all of British society.
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Re: Of course you're a social asset
Date: 2010-10-06 01:50 pm (UTC)Mr Square-Peg-in-a-Round-Hole.
Actually, that's not entirely true. As was mentioned, Geoffrey Munn (a Grammar School chap) didn't entirely approve of the social conditions in the pre WWI era, despite his love of, and fascination with, the craftsmanship and artistry of Faberge. He even mentioned that he benefitted from the social mobility in his era in comparison to the eras previous.
Also many of the 'Nobs' attending had more than a cursory acquaintance with the notion of social justice: some of them devoting their lives to 'good' works of various kinds.
This makes me wonder if the fault lies mainly with the arriviste money grabbing social climbing grocer's daughters of Grantham, and their ilk. I'm sure the traditional upper classes have a rump of semi-fascistic types who could think of no greater pleasure than knouting a few peasants to death before a hearty lunch, but I'm beginning to think of them as being in a minority. The problem with me is I'm not actually upper class, more, like George Orwell, lower-upper-middle class, if you see what I mean: and that group are amongst the most mean, rapacious, and grasping, of all of British society.