← Back to context

Comment by DFHippie

1 day ago

I'm skeptical that the nobility were ever particularly noble in the eyes of the commoners.

Well, of course there would be a range, just like today. It seems like 1/3 will always be skeptical of authority, 1/3 will always literally worship authority, and then there's the spectrum between. I saw some "computational anthropology" paper some months ago saying that same ratio appears fairly consistent going back to the Greeks and the initial ratios of their early Democracy.