Learning to love the bourgeois: Crass middle-class values are what made the modern world, and we ignore them at our peril
By Joshua Rothman | January 21, 2011 | Boston Globe
“…n pre-bourgeois Europe, the preservation of order was more important than the generation of new ideas. Power was centralized in royal families and professional guilds. Most importantly, McCloskey argues, ordinary people revered aristocrats and looked down on commercial pursuits. Then, slowly, over the two centuries leading up to the Industrial Revolution, culture changed….”…BS
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2011/01/16/learning_to_love_the_bourgeois/
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