It's so grating watching the kid say that shit about Mu Siyun. Hearing it from old power and old money? Okay. They're still poopyheads, but okay, I get it. But him? He's just a middle class dipshit. Where does he get off despising poor peasants, as if the 1% would even see the difference?
@Romariel
I actually get him more than I'm comfortable with. Like I said, he's middle class. As in, the middle of that:
He sees assholes when he looks up, shit when he looks down.
He's got some basic level of empathy and righteousness, so he doesn't like the brutality of the rich and powerful. Plus, when all is said and done, their yoke is on him too, even if it's not nearly as heavy as on guys like Mu or the angels.
But on the other hand, his life is pretty comfortable. He's not one of those guys slaving away for a pittance and/or risking their lives. And if people really start getting put against the wall and shot, who knows if he won't be one of them? I mean, like I said, I get him, and even I want to slap him silly. Who knows what effect he'd have on people who would be personally insulted by his dismissiveness of the poor and their issues? Or people, whose blood is up because a bloody revolution is going on, who see how slappable his face is?
So the bottom line is, he'd like the world to get better without him having to lift a finger, and with no disruption to his own routine. Barring that, he wants the statu quo, because
to him, the statu quo isn't so bad.