This is a really interesting essay and I think nails the problem. We have a technocratic elite, sprung from the middle classes who don't think they are an elite, completely out of touch with rural Ireland. The most educated generation in Irish history who can't see what's under their noses. Because they are Irish and are often from small farms, in their heads they are just like everyone else.
’. But just because you come from Kerry, looking at you Bernard Looney, doesn’t mean you aren’t part of the elite. At least the old aristocracy were fully aware of their privilege.
I love the use of the word 'leviathan', as it's one I used myself in a recent essay. You might like it, the roots of this problem go deep into Irish history imo.
Thank you. I will be sure to check it out. A comment I heard many years ago about our rulers stuck with me. ‘They are not educated but merely suffer a different kind of ignorance’.
It’s the plantation of Ulster all over again. This time instead of the English it’s the very real problem of elites, disconnected from the populations that they sprung from.
This is a really interesting essay and I think nails the problem. We have a technocratic elite, sprung from the middle classes who don't think they are an elite, completely out of touch with rural Ireland. The most educated generation in Irish history who can't see what's under their noses. Because they are Irish and are often from small farms, in their heads they are just like everyone else.
’. But just because you come from Kerry, looking at you Bernard Looney, doesn’t mean you aren’t part of the elite. At least the old aristocracy were fully aware of their privilege.
I love the use of the word 'leviathan', as it's one I used myself in a recent essay. You might like it, the roots of this problem go deep into Irish history imo.
Thank you. I will be sure to check it out. A comment I heard many years ago about our rulers stuck with me. ‘They are not educated but merely suffer a different kind of ignorance’.
It’s the plantation of Ulster all over again. This time instead of the English it’s the very real problem of elites, disconnected from the populations that they sprung from.
God bless the Irish.