re: #80 The Ghost of Senator Incitatus

I think what they really embrace is fucking old-school Downton Abbey understandings of the social orders of people, where merit is granted to be an a priori trait, yet only established a posteriori.

They then dress this notion in various costumes to inflame their interests of the moment.

Calvinism teaches us that wealth is an outward expression of inner grace: the rich got that way because they are more moral than the rest of us. That is just the sort of horseshit definition they love to hear.

What scares me is how many people still buy into it.