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Crowned Masterpieces of Eloquence: We used to be a Civilization

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A piece I wrote on one of the most fascinating and incredible thriftstore finds I've ever stumbled upon.

The Edwardians and Victorians were not like us, they believed in a nobility of their political class that's almost impossible to understand or relate to, and that believe, that attribution of nobility is tied up with something even more mysterious: their belief in the fundamental nobility of rhetoric.

Still not sure entirely how I feel about this, or how sure I am of my conclusions but this has had me spellbound in fascination and so I wrote about it.

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I'll respond to you with a lot of simple words, then, to meet you at your reading level.

This post reads like someone who is more interested in getting as many condescending digs in as possible, buried in a lot of words, than someone actually interested in the discussion. This post and this one are both you trying to call the other poster stupid as many different ways as you think you can slip by the mods.

My reading level may not be at your lofty level, but I can still see what you're doing.

Keep posting like this, and next time I won't bother letting your posts out of the new user filter. In the meantime, banned for three days for antagonism.