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>>16524729
I’m an “aristocrat” by financial and social standards.
I don’t know, something about your tone, your post—there is a rare glimmer there. I want to pour what I know into you; I want to share what I have with you.
I can help you acquire wealth and power with ease, but this is not the essence of the aristocratic education, which is twofold: 1. How actually to lead a “good life”; and 2. How to treat expensive things with a distance. Aristocracy is in large part a cultivated attitude, a regime of caring and not caring, a very special matrix of attention toward things in the world. Much of its essential material qualities viz. its own education are reducible simply to: free time, luxury, pursuit of things “in and for themselves.”

Let me know if you ever want a real window into an “aristocratic” education, OP. I like you and want to help.