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>>azalem+(OP)
100 years ago the British Empire tried to thought-control India. Today the empire is a bunch of demented aristocrats who are thought-policing those few who are still under their control.

>>akomtu+C4
If the aristocrats were in control we wouldn't have these problems. They stopped running things a long time ago.

>>b800h+N5
Fine, it's not as much an aristocracy as a more general nobility, to an extent competing with foreign oligarchs and governments for control.

E.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Lords and so on.