These are not normal times. Few people in recent years can have escaped the feeling that strange and unprecedented things are happening.
Read More...… barbarians are predatory, destructive, and nomadic: they consume and exploit, but don’t produce. There is no need for a Journal of Barbarian Studies. Just look around: their realm is the entirety of the public culture.
Read More...In the past, people displayed their membership of the upper class with their material accoutrements. But today, luxury goods are more affordable than before… (the affluent) have come up with a clever solution. The affluent have decoupled social status from goods, and re-attached it to beliefs.
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