Their inheritable privilege dies forever if they don’t fight to uphold it, and the one rule of all landed gentry is never to jeopardize the family’s privileges, under penalty of disinheritance and expulsion.
Their inheritable privilege dies forever if they don’t fight to uphold it, and the one rule of all landed gentry is never to jeopardize the family’s privileges, under penalty of disinheritance and expulsion.
Yeah. This tribal territorial zero-sum perspective is the original form of politics. It doesn't work so well in a modern knowledge-based multicultural world, but the DNA hasn't caught up yet.