Tang Is Also 'Old Money'

I've got a letter from David Tang somewhere, the person who conceived the highly successful 'Shanghai Tang' design emporium. If I recall rightly, it concerned some query about lobster supply for his private club in Shanghai prior to a major Asian festival or centennial or something.   

David Tang is another one of these interesting 'Londoners;' I mean yeah he is a legitimate 'Tang' as in literally from the Tang Dynasty families - but he speaks with a real Chelsea accent.

Tang-designed dragon Martini glasses,
and something else, I don't know what

I'm not so sure that he really is the actual design brains behind the brand itself, and all of its products, but he is at minimum, the equivalent of what Alessi was to its brand - a sound design manager.

The Shanghai Tang franchises almost all around the whole world, have been retreating from their prominent high profile premises, and moving to smaller footprint, and often rather hidden abodes. But they are not going away, as such. 'Tang' is forever.

David - or in fact Sir David, as he is today - is a rather boring middle class mindset type of Londoner with an Sino-Asiatic look about him. And the trouble with a lot of these Etonian- types, is that they are not anywhere near as brilliant as they claim to be, or often, sneeringly insinuate that they are! I don't even think they believe they are sneering when they talk. That is how out-of-touch with human reality and society they really are.

Now you ought not to make the serious mistake of thinking that 'society' consists of these people; not actual 'upper class' society. They think they are, but they are not. 

'Tang' is upper class. And David Tang ought to be upper class because of his surname. But he isn't and anyone from the genuine upper circles can tell instantly when he speaks. 

I had one of these once - it was
undriveable.  

Someone behind Shanghai Tang is upper class, but it ain't Sir David. And that is all I will say about it.

But as a way of 'explaining' what I am saying, let me tell you this - if people want to say there are
such things as 'Reptilians' or 'Rothschilds' (pejoratively) and all of this, then they had better understand that you cannot walk into a room with one of those and feel bored.

Think 'conservative,' think 'promote conformity' - think middle class. 

Think someone or something hiding in the shadows, behind what is actually going on, that is the hand or the agency or even the mufti style of the genuine Upper Class in person. And the outcome, always bespeaks who was doing what where.

And if someone who is UPPER CLASS chooses to show themselves out in the open, the sun is occulted.

By the way, have you ever noticed that with all of the images and pics of things which are supposed to be to do with wealth or luxury, there never is even a single speck of dust anywhere - I tried to find a pic (the Lamborghini above) with at least some elements of weather or dirt...

There's something about the middle classes that they have this phobia about dirt and dust and everything must be perfectly pristine all the time. Unused, I would hazard. Which is why a lot of stuff that is portrayed as representative of wealth and luxury and so on - is actually non-functional. Or 'un'-functional. I would call it 'un'-functional. I mean it works, but it never does what it says it is meant to do for you.