“The histories of mankind are histories only of the higher classes.” – Thomas Ma

“The histories of mankind are histories only of the higher classes.”

– Thomas Malthus. (Isn’t that because they’re the exceptions? Why spend effort and analysis to catalog and remember the pervasive and innocuous? Humans, like all apes, will forgo food to watch their Alphas. We learn from our Alphas. Our upper classes are our Alphas. There isn’t anything more to it. And we’d go extinct otherwise.)