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Entry: The Haughty Polloi Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/the_haughty_polloi#8426 Post contents: @True Southerner So you are caught in the old agrarian dream of the gentleman farmer and deny rspect those who among ohter things provide you with electricity, the lights taht allow to read late in the night, the refrigeraton that chills your beer, the TV that you enjoy, the computer that you use to communicate, the stove that allows you to cook without turning the place black from soot, the central heating. None of those things you are so happy using was created by those who ran family states in your idealized agrarian past. It was not them who invented central plumbing, and toilets, which finally defeated the innumerable epidemics that afflicted pre-modern man. It was not them who pioneered scientific research, who created vaccines, nor medical treatments. You may complain at the manners of those who run or create the distribution systems of such goods, but as long as you willingly use the products they deliver and think they are good, then acknowldege that they earned their money in a very meritorious way. Sent at: 2008 07 23