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You need someone, after all, to blow raspberries and debag the insufficiently serious people who grift their way to the upper echelons of international finance and parade around like serious people. | You need someone, after all, to blow raspberries and debag the insufficiently serious people who grift their way to the upper echelons of international finance and parade around like serious people. | ||
=== | ===Seriousness criteria === | ||
You know it when you see it. By reverse engineering from people we deem to be serious we might draw out some criteria and see if they work prospectively. Serious people don’t have to be ''likeable'', you don’t have to agree with them. Serious people can represent a position you cannot abide. | You know it when you see it. By reverse engineering from people we deem to be serious we might draw out some criteria and see if they work prospectively. Serious people don’t have to be ''likeable'', you don’t have to agree with them. Serious people can represent a position you cannot abide. | ||
Consider who, of your ''bête noire'', is a serious person. For we of liberal metropolitan North London elite, take Brexit. | Consider who, of your ''bête noire'', is a serious person. For we of liberal metropolitan North London elite, take Brexit. Boris Johnson is not serious. Nor is Jacob Rees-Mogg, nor Nadine Dorries. But Nigel Farage ''is'' a serious person. So is Dominic Cummings. | ||
Boris Johnson is not serious. Nor is Jacob Rees-Mogg, nor Nadine Dorries. But Nigel Farage ''is'' a serious person. So is Dominic Cummings. | |||
Interestingly, it is hard to remember who led the remain campaign. This, in itself, suggests a lack of seriousness. (For the record, the chair was Sir Stuart Rose, a retired city grandee.)<ref>The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britain_Stronger_in_Europe seventeen-strong board], the most prominent public figures amongst whom were Trevor Phillips, Caroline Lucas and Peter Mandelson — all serious people, by the way — gives a clue to why it lost.</ref> | Interestingly, it is hard to remember who led the remain campaign. This, in itself, suggests a lack of seriousness. (For the record, the chair was Sir Stuart Rose, a retired city grandee.)<ref>The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britain_Stronger_in_Europe seventeen-strong board], the most prominent public figures amongst whom were Trevor Phillips, Caroline Lucas and Peter Mandelson — all serious people, by the way — gives a clue to why it lost.</ref> | ||
====Tolerance==== | ====Tolerance==== | ||
But they will comprehend that a fully functioning marketplace for ideas contains ones they don’t respect or like, that those with different standpoints are still entitled to contribute them, and the fairest judge of those ideas is that marketplace. | But they will comprehend that a fully functioning marketplace for ideas contains ones they don’t respect or like, that those with different standpoints are still entitled to contribute them, and the fairest judge of those ideas is that marketplace. | ||
Serious people don’t burn books or | Serious people don’t burn books or de-platform people. Certainly not in the name of “inclusivity”. I mean, ''Jesus''. | ||
====Builders==== | ====Builders==== | ||
Serious people ''build'', unserious people ''inherit''. Logan Roy versus his kids. Building from scratch educates you in the school of life. Inheritance bestows a sense of entitlement. Inheritors can become serious people —''noblesse oblige'' — but despite their status, not because of it: wealth, power, and prestige come with responsibilities. | Serious people ''build'', unserious people ''inherit''. Logan Roy versus his kids. Building from scratch educates you in the school of life. Inheritance bestows a sense of entitlement. Inheritors can become serious people —''noblesse oblige'' — but despite their status, not because of it: wealth, power, and prestige come with responsibilities. | ||