#and yes I know that aristocratic lives suck but I don't care this isn't about them this is about me and how I feel about them

[petrenocka]

I've recently visited a historic aristocratic mansion. Specifically the Rundāles Palace Museum and btw, it has fantastic virtual tour and guide features on the website. Genuinely do take the time to go through it, it's amazing and FREE

https://latviainside.com/explore/tours/rundalespils/virtualtour.html

https://digitalaisgids.rundale.net/#/language

And I do mean that it's 100% worth your time, especially if you're the kind of person to listed to an hour long video essay on an unfamiliar topic this is totally for you.

But being there in person and really taking in that real people actually lived there, like that. Seeing the bright colors and ornamentation and listening to the thought process behind how they were made...

GOD I FUCKING HATE THE RICH SO MUCH

The aristocracy were monstrous scum, but look at their houses! They had more money then God, just like our modern 1% but they spent it! On on beauty, on comfort, on opulance, on weird shit. On art!

Dozens of artists made a living because these people wanted their houses to look pretty. Pay attention to how many of the paintings in the museum are uncredited: this means they more then likely were made by little known artists whose names didn't survive the test of time, yet their works are still there!

Yes this money was stolen through incredible violence and brutal oppression. But looking at this Palace I really get a sense of solace from knowing that at least a lot of it was made into beauty! I feel satisfaction and even pride for the various revolutionaries whose efforts allowed for these brilliant remains to be splayed for all to see like trophies on a hunter's wall.

And honestly I can respect that. They took all this wealth and then had fun with it, lived in good looking warm places they denied their subjects. I can understand that. All this happiness that should've been everyone's equally, yet at the very least it was still somewhere, this beauty still existed in the world.

But the ruling class of today? Their McMansions look like SHIT! Gray and white walls of nothing, dead interior design and even deader soulless exterior. ""Designer"" glass tables that cost more then the entirety of the Rundāles Pils that look no better then Ikea furniture.

And how they're dressed? Musk and Gates drape themselves in fast fashion, lapping as poors. Dresses cut from single color of cloth, all the money and effort instead put into skincare and plastic surgery, which honestly? I do wish that in a hundred years when their heads are on pikes like that of the aristocracy before them. I hope The CEO Museum has a stand with all the surgery, a taxidermy of someone rich guy in a glass see-through coffin.

And all but few rich men, from the last penny pinching CEO to Presidents can't even have a suit tailored that fucking fits them! The suit, the most boring high class fashion in history, and these soulless gouls manage to fuck up even that!

It's insulting! It's vile and revolting to know that these vampires drink our blood by gallons and trun it into vomit within their bloated stomachs. That the remains of their rule and our suffering will be drab and uninspiring. That they devour our happiness and don't even have any for themselves, like a void of greed, insatiable and pointless. It reeks of pure evil in way in which aristocracy opulance and brightness didn't and that's disgusting to my very core.