Originally Posted by jadis

"Preppy" is funny bc it's an Americanism that refers to a specific American social reality

Adidass, if I understand correctly, grew up in eastern Europe - I wonder what relevance the notion of "middle class" could have in his upbringing. Probably none at all

It's that "materialist analysis" again

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.