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The British elite is haunted by childhood demons
- pinewurst 2y agohttps://archive.ph/sWLDe https://archive.ph/sWLDe
- NikkiA 2y agoAnd yet it's generational, if they cared that much they could/would surely stop the cycle. Instead I bet 99% of them utter the phrase 'it's what made me the man I am today'
- pinewurst 2y agoI read a memoir years ago from someone who had been sent away at 7. It still haunts me in a way. The parents’ strong feeling was that’s what you did when you attained a certain class. In the upper echelons, having merely attended “grammar school” was something to ridicule.
- nothercastle 2y agoYou have to signal you are elite somehow. Boarding school, phds, grinding law school, hazing at elite fraternities, or whatever stupid thing.
- bdjsiqoocwk 2y agoHow do you do it?
- nothercastle 2y agoDegrees
- infradig 2y agoI recommend watching "If..." (1968) with Malcolm McDowell.
- Khelavaster 2y agoImagine if British you g adults held their parents accountable once they didn't have anything else useful to expect from them.
- darkclouds 2y ago[dead]