re: #114 Romantic Heretic

Yep. Few ever say, “I support this idea of how the world should be so much that I’ll exist on the bottom of the ladder to support it.”

Because in their minds, they’re special.

There was some British show where they reenacted a well-to-do Edwardian household.

You saw how the servants worked their asses off, ridiculous hours, so these people could live a comfortable, gracious life.

The woman who played the wife went off on this whole riff in one of the late interviews about how much had been LOST now that people didn’t live like this anymore, it was just so GRACIOUS, and LOVELY, and you had time for the IMPORTANT things in life.

I could have slapped her. Yes, lady, when other people get up at five in the morning to make you breakfast, and do your laundry, and get half a day off a week, I’m sure it feels lovely. To you.