Yeah, that just isn't true. It might feel true if you don't have any grasp on history, but if you want to go back a few centuries and claim that the British monarchy were simply genetically superior people to the British working class, with higher IQs and a greater capacity for rational thought - well, you'd just be wrong.

Those people were genetically indistiguishable. And yet, as always, the rich used politeness as a tool of power. Because they didn't have any need for violence - they could order other people to do that for them. They didn't have any need to yell and raise their voice - they could get whatever they wanted by gesturing to a henchman.

So they put on a mask of politeness to assert the idea that they deserved all the absolute power that they had. They wanted people to think they were genetically superior and higher-IQ (not that anyone had invented IQ yet).

They weren't, though. With a little historical distance, it's easy to see that they were every bit as much the smelly dipshits that their subjects were.

And it's not just the historical British monarchy. It's all of human history.