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Are celebrities the aristocracy of the United States?

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The aristocracy of England and Italy have a history of over 1000 years of being the economic, social, and political elite. If you look at a European aristocrat they look like their relatives and are visibly taller than the general population. Or at least they were before vitamins, antibiotics, and national health. read more

Modern celebrities are temporary, fragile, have no political or social power, are a fluke in a family of ordinary people (except for Brazilian supermodels), and can loose their celebrity status faster than they rose to it. read more

As with the other Founders, Adams and Jefferson shared an abhorrence for what they called the “tinsel aristocracy” of the Old World. They were glad that America had been spared the baneful influence of a corrupt, hereditary nobility. read more

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