Aristocracy - Blog Posts

austyrinne

4 months ago

"Their wealth is power and that wealth is stored in singular assets that perch upon their shoulders today, hunt vermin tomorrow and cripple kingdoms next week."

The Kazoku peerage of the Japanese empire.

According to the article I read, it was considered a status symbol among them to not know how to perform basic tasks due to reliance on servants. It's a fascinating contrast from the kind of values we have today, isn't it? I got the impression that their ideal of the most noble life was not merely leisure, but perfect stasis like a marine invertebrate that sticks to rocks forever.

Maybe we'd all see things that way if we never had to work

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