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🗓️ 1 July 2021
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0:00.0 | Hello, trash future listeners. Please enjoy this Britnology preview. And just as a heads up, we've |
0:05.7 | unlocked the UK Rave comments episode of Britonology to the $5 tier. And that episode is linked in the |
0:11.3 | description of this preview as well. Hope you enjoy. And I think we'll touch on this with a lot of different |
0:16.4 | kind of archetypes and stereotypes that we're going to talk about. But there's a sort of existential clash in poshness now where there are some people who, |
0:26.1 | if you are super old money but you don't have any money anymore, which is lots of them because |
0:31.3 | like, you know, fundamentally fortunes rise and fall unless you're guaranteed land by the king. |
0:36.6 | And they're no longer guaranteed land by the king and they're no longer guaranteed |
0:38.2 | land by the king so some of them lose all their money that guy's dead that that happens um so lots of |
0:45.1 | lots of those people not all but lots of those people uh in the absence of financial superiority will |
0:51.7 | cling on to the old titles and the old circles their family moved in |
0:57.1 | and you know all of that shit and really cling on to the trappings of poshness um to kind of |
1:06.2 | as part of a sort of insecurity that they're actually losing the seniority they once had. |
1:11.5 | But then there's, and, you know, obviously what happens is like the younger the generation gets, |
1:18.8 | the more everyone's like, being posh isn't exactly in at the moment. |
1:22.9 | So there are loads of people who, you know, I know, Milo knows, who are, who go into kind of stealth mode. |
1:31.5 | And there are various different, you know, you can do the thing where you just kind of moderate your voice a little bit. |
1:37.0 | Yep. |
1:38.4 | Or you can do the thing where you fully, like, change voice, change persona, change how you dress, change how, |
1:46.2 | change what job you do, change who you hang out with, change your political beliefs, |
1:50.6 | but all out of this like insecurity about appearing to be like your parents. |
1:57.6 | It's basically like a rebellion. |
1:59.0 | It's basically rebellion against your parents, but taking the form of like, |
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