Wednesday 27 June 2012

Romania, like every country, needs an elite

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Foreign rule of Romania by the E.U. is of course on the whole better than rule by the local political class although it brings all sorts things I passionately hate, rules about slaughtering pigs and riding horses and carts and a thousand other infringements on freedom and attacks on tradition including teaching in schools modish Western ideas about feminism and homosexuality. The problem is not only that Romania has such an execrable political elite but that it has an execrable elite - her elite was destroyed often literally by Communism. That is what Romanians have to rebuild starting with the intellectuals and the journalists and the historians many of whom are very compromised figures, inevitably.


Nowadays the elite in the West for some reason disapprove of elites and elitism and indeed they have have made the idea of an elite look pretty bad.

1 comment:

  1. Indeed, Romanian elites have been crushed under the boots of Communism, and the consequences of those crimes are still felt these days.

    But what about today's British elite? It may be true that our elite 'sucks' but I wouldn't prefer the British one either :-(

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