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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+(OP)
If the aristocrats were in control we wouldn't have these problems. They stopped running things a long time ago.

>>b800h+b1
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.

>>b800h+b1
Yes, these days our prime ministers normal, everyday knights, etonians and billionaires. Sometimes they'll be photographed without a tie, or they'll have a chummy nickname like Tony or Dave or Liz.

You know, normal people like you and me.

>>akomtu+(OP)
Yes, the UK is so unsuccessful a large number of Indians want to move there every year.

>>b800h+b1
The aristocrats were removed long ago. Bankers have run the UK since the Age of Sail.

>>gadder+n4
Just for economical reasons, not because of great culture or anything like that.

>>gadder+n4
Being a better place to live than India is an extremely low bar.

Source: Lived in India for 15 years.

>>mapcar+k7
Haha. The "Magic Soil" theory. The UK (and Western culture in general) is the cause of the economic success. They are indivisible.