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class thing out of what seemed to be Victorian era nostalgia. A great deal of that was probably unpalatable in the UK's socialist democracy.
I thought later, but not during my youth, that their accent on the ruling class was conditioning. It engrained acceptance for that social structure, by portraying it as antique, somewhat romantic and colorful but for those who were not advantaged it was anything but.
They also made the middle ages, Greek and Roman empires look more natural and free, pure and philosophically. Just ignore the slaves that gave the leisure to come up with all that rot, never mind all of that stuff.
Combine that with some religous groups here and you have a class of people who adore royalty. It's not about equality but a stability built for the 1% at the expense of those whose lives were more chaotic and shorter due to being used for that stability. Accepting it, as a harsh fact of life is made to look bearable in more bucolic settings and all of that.
At least the English working class kept a consciousness that did empower them, despite their disadvantaged status, but now it's gone so far over the edge they've broken that pride.
PBS had a conservative bent with a genteel touch on the weekends that I watched as a kid. It was Buckley, and later McLaughlin and bunch (whatever). They were the pre-Fox news era and made the case that conservatives were intelligent, serious and worldly that we now know tas nothing but know nothing bullies.
And you know that they were always funded by the Koch brothers and foundations that turned out to be less of charity and more of tax evasion devices in the long run. The more public funding that PBS lost, the more independence it lost until now I have no idea what it's about.
I agree with you, that is to say.
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