The Queen's English, looking classy, and Marx's insight on ruling ideas

“The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas.” –Karl Marx, The German Ideology This is a truth so simple that it's often missed: the ruled get their guidelines from the rulers. "Proper English" is "The Queen's English", not "The Gardener's English". Ideal clothes and manners are "classy" or "high class", not "common" or "working class". The most praised art is the art