What were elites actually talking about in backrooms and courts throughout history? I've been thinking about how what we have preserved are often very public facing documents and very rarely things that were intended to be kept private. We don't seem to have much documents until modern times that genuinely reflected the thought process lf leadership and social elites
>>18474452You can probably get a good idea by reading things written by nobility like lord Dunsany, lord Tennyson, lord Byron, they were basically Antonio Gramsci's "traditional intellectuals".
