Media’s hang-up about the word ‘Posh!’

Wouldn’t it be nice if the media began, for a change, to praise those who have the good-fortune to be successful and also happen to be well-educated and from a privileged background – whether in the field of Politics or Professional careers – instead of constantly using the word ‘posh’ as a bludgeon to attempt to belittle the person they are referring to. As if that person actually ‘chose’ to be privately educated – and also just happens to have a refined English accent.

In our current socialistic society that deems all be equal, the ability to dumb down to the lowest common denominator appears to make a person more popular- regardless of whether they are thicker than a two cent watch, or have an coarser accent than Melvyn the Fishmonger from Codswallop-on-Sea.

Personally I would have thought anyone from a privileged background who actually made it on their own abilities – with a just a little help from their Grammar School teachers – should be someone any ill-educated peon would want to aspire to, but no! It appears quite the opposite. 2009 Heroes and Heroines appear to be tattooed mutants who either strum a guitar and shout obscenities at 100 decibels or higher, or are neurotic powder-sniffing women willing to have their boobs fall out of their garments on a live reality TV show.

Has style, class and finesse gone forever? Have we reduced ourselves to the level of the same kind of  ‘citizens’ who rebelled against the establishment at the time of the French Revolution? (Not that they didn’t have a just cause)

A little like now, that particular event came about because of the basic citizen’s displeasure with the way the government and the king worked. The king had complete control over the peasants charging unfair taxes and forcing the lowly classes to fight in low ranks of the army. They also had to pay or give money or food and other valuables to often more than one Lord, who owned the land they worked on or lived on, or even just lived near. Also nobles, rich people could avoid large amounts of tax.

Does that sound familiarly similar to our own Parliamentarians creaming through their corrupt system and does the revolutionists sound a little like our Unions, ie; the ‘Postal Workers’ who want to deprive their own embattled fellow citizens of a chance to survive at a time when all are in the middle of a recession.

Louis Charles, the second  and the extravagant Marie Antoinette is very far removed from the media’s so-called ‘posh’ David Cameron and his wife, even though a parallel may well be drawn between Robespierre and Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

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