09-22-2008, 12:51 AM
long for the days of a crude and relatively undifferentiated popular and consumer culture, when stuff was just … stuff.
I don't think those days ever existed, did they? There were always people who did not partake of the popular culture and I think they were often either well-off -- or else unable to partake of the stuff because they were badly off. This person seems to think that once upon a time everyone in the entire country was a clone of each other.