ARISTOCRACY VS GENTRY I have’t figured out how I’m doing to deal with this yet,

ARISTOCRACY VS GENTRY

I have’t figured out how I’m doing to deal with this yet, but there is indeed a difference between Aristocratic egalitarian manorialism, and the Aristocratic class. One describes the metaphysical prejudices of a social order, the other it’s extreme instantiation in a small number of individuals.

In fact, as someone else pointed out today, the Aristocrats were, for much of the medieval period, bloody warriors that the church could not suppress.

But that said, I disagree with the negative opinions of aristocracy held by most historians. The aristocratic obsession was a ‘good thing’ is based upon the fact that the church (STATE) could NOT suppress them. Nor can the state suppress an armed militia.

While the current intellectual emphasis is on the family, and outbreeding, as the source of the western aristocratic egalitarian ethic, the militia is an equally important institution – because it was the first: the cause of liberty and property.

GENTRY

The gentry were the middle managers who actually ran society the way that sergeants run the army.

And when we say that one is a gentleman, we refer to the behavior of the gentry, if not the martial aristocracy.

These gentlemen and their families built England, as a commercial power.

And it is their progeny that we all represent.