Wednesday 5 October 2011

It's the rich what gets the pleasure

The internet – particularly the blogosphere – provides great opportunities for sociological study. One can compare and contrast the aspirations, tastes and viewpoints of people from either end of every kind of spectrum – social, political, geographical - simply by reading what they write about themselves.

Take Top People, for example: what does Hugh Massingham-Bohun in Gloucestershire have in common with Edward Cabot Ames III in Massachusetts?

Is it the fact that both have a great deal of money, as does the Non-Top Person Luke Riemenschneider of Arkansas?  Other than that, nothing much, I suppose, except for the desire to tell the world about their lives in the mistaken belief that the world will find them of interest.

Actually, unlike most blogs I find these three are not particularly boring since the writers all seem to enjoy with gusto what they do; I am not envious of any of them, but some aspects of their lives sound as if they might be fun...


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2 comments:

Elizabeth said...

How about Septimus, George and the Icon collector?

Tony said...

They reinforce my point: what they write on their blogs clearly reveals their characters and lifestyles. The first two are a pair of religious fruitcakes with ridiculous delusions and Julius de Basil is a decent enough little fellow but pretentious and a bit of a humbug.