#449 — Dogma, Tribe, and Truth
And then there was also just this constant struggle within aristocratic groups to prevent decadence and debasement. you know, if you think about the stereotypes of the third generation Rockefeller or Vanderbilt, as opposed to the first one, it's not like, oh, you know, these people are all sitting in an English garden, reading Plutarch's lives and, you know, painting watercolors.