/lit/ - Literature

the triviality of pop has acted like a fetish on all sorts of aesthetic choices, sealing its dominance in international markets. Adolescents and the socially disadvantaged have gained so much influence that the aesthetic tact is now being directed from "low" to "high". This can be seen in the urban habitus, where coolness requires the right sneakers, not the noble leather shoe. It also shows in the body cult: While the muscle mass was once considered a proletarian or peasant status symbol, it has long been celebrated in bourgeois circles. The same is true of the tradition of tattoos, traces of which can be traced back to sailor and proletarian scenes, which are now celebrating their birth in the bourgeois mainstream. And the cultured offspring of the educated middle classes imitates the slang of the tough immigrant youth without accent.

And so the decadence takes rooths