<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><DIV>From what I've read of it so far, a great article, located in a "conservative" publication because?? Liberal multiculturalism can't handle these cultural issues in a serious way; leftists (mostly rightly) think that cultural issues distract us from class issues. But the cultural issues need to be taken seriously, if only because the ruling class's authority is now part and parcel of its claims to "expertise."<BR></DIV>
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<B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> E. Wayne Johnson <ewj@pigs.ag><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> Peace-discuss <peace-discuss@anti-war.net><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Thu, August 19, 2010 5:01:48 PM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> [Peace-discuss] the ruling class<BR></FONT><BR>some thing awakes. It's about time.<BR><BR>"The Ruling Class all go to good schools<BR>where they go to bed on one another,<BR>and then they grow up,<BR>and make all the rules...<BR><BR>Hang the Judges high.<BR>Hang the wise men of the realm."<BR>("Ruling Class", Robyn Hitchcock. 1989.)<BR><BR>**** ****<BR><BR>Today's ruling class, from Boston to San Diego, was formed by an educational system that exposed them to the same ideas and gave them remarkably uniform guidance, as well as tastes and habits. These amount to a social canon of judgments about good and evil, complete
with secular sacred history, sins (against minorities and the environment), and saints. Using the right words and avoiding the wrong ones when referring to such matters -- speaking the "in" language -- serves as a badge of identity. Regardless of what business or profession they are in, their road up included government channels and government money because, as government has grown, its boundary with the rest of American life has become indistinct. Many began their careers in government and leveraged their way into the private sector. Some, e.g., Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner, never held a non-government job. Hence whether formally in government, out of it, or halfway, America's ruling class speaks the language and has the tastes, habits, and tools of bureaucrats. It rules uneasily over the majority of Americans not oriented to government.<BR><BR>The two classes have less in common culturally, dislike each other more, and embody ways of
life more different from one another than did the 19th century's Northerners and Southerners -- nearly all of whom, as Lincoln reminded them, "prayed to the same God." By contrast, while most Americans pray to the God "who created and doth sustain us," our ruling class prays to itself as "saviors of the planet" and improvers of humanity. Our classes' clash is over "whose country" America is, over what way of life will prevail, over who is to defer to whom about what. The gravity of such divisions points us, as it did Lincoln, to Mark's Gospel: "if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand."<BR><BR>"America's Ruling Class and the Perils of R3voJution"<BR>Angelo Codevilla<BR><BR><A href="http://spectator.org/archives/2010/07/16/americas-ruling-class-and-the/print" target=_blank>http://spectator.org/archives/2010/07/16/americas-ruling-class-and-the/print</A><BR><BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Peace-discuss
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