"The central place of these virtues in a ‘classical’ or ‘high bourgeois’ canon is worth recognizing, in particular because today’s Western bourgeoisie, as a class in terminal decline, no longer seems to place any importance on virtue at all."
"Today’s elite and their scions are cultural and ethical omnivores, who revel in appropriating the signifiers of the underclass: athleisure, opioids, trap music, etc: a phenomenon some have called ‘bourgeois cultural slumming’."
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