How will we cope when the last middle-class man slumps to the ground?

To hear the likes of Niall Ferguson, he is part of an endangered species. A strange new phenomenon seems to have struck him and his media chums: victim-envy

The last male northern white rhino died last month, and a memorial was held. David Attenborough spoke about the end of this subspecies. Prince William is prone, like his father, to making pro-rhino speeches. Two female northern white rhinos survive and, with sophisticated IVF methods, it’s possible more will be produced. One can but hope.

I imagine it will be like this when the last middle-class man slumps to the ground. Why did we not do more to save this endangered species, we will ask ourselves? Royalty will be shipped in. We thought they would lumber on. We didn’t realise the environment we were forcing them to live in was becoming impossible. How could these creatures even mate after #MeToo? How could they forage for food when women went to work all the time? How could they survive when women demanded to be paid equally, and to not be attacked?

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from The Guardian https://ift.tt/2Gv2Vei