Why is aristocracy relevant to this period of history?

Question

Why is aristocracy relevant to this period of history?

Answer 1

Our money elite is the US monarchy. They are the only ones who can pay the millions to buy public office. We might just as well be told the the office of President will be determined by who can collect and spend the most money on his election. Why bother to Vote just sell the job to the highest bidder.

Answer 2

what relevant about artistocracy in this period of history, is that never before have people so so deep in denial about it's present existence

Answer 3

It seems the Kennedy aristocracy has taken back the Democrat Party from the Clinton aristocracy.

Answer 4

Aren't all humans, irrespective of status and class, relevant to every period of history? Otherwise, there would be no [human] history, wouldn't there?

Answer 5

the poor get poor and the rich get rich. the society is about status, wealth, prestige. There is a gritty undertone, a ghetto fabulous look, a waanabe humbleness, but that humbleness costs 80$ for abercrombie frayed worn jean shorts. The high end ho bo look. Which is to say while masked as the every man the aristocracy rules all in the age of commercialism.

Attempts to shame the poor and disenfranchise them further are gaining momentum. Old arguments resurface, turn from medical diagnosis of mental illness or "medical termed drug addiction, to a sense of darwinian responsibility or let them die, not my problem, more concerned with the self. who needs friends when the moneys good?

the masses are laughingly controlled by the aristocracy. They keep you entertained with news about g**s and religious dogma while they subvert everything we've worked for. They seriously want coal fired ovens and just pour you in like mortar. They want a smoke stack on every corner. Big time viagra sales. Stack you on top of each other in soviet style tenement projects, sharing a toilet while they live in a gated mansion. The aristocracy never went away they just went underground. Grand pa Bush passed the mantle to his kid, gave the other son a province to rule over. You think this is coincidence, it's not about connections and so on?

In one sense you do learn things from people you know. If you grow up around boats or planes, you know what to do to get a liscence and find work. It's always easier to travel along a path that's clear. Still, there is plenty to be said about the modern aristocracy and who's doing what.