/lit/ - Literature

>>16561246
>culturally dead?
Current 'elites' are a mercantile class of vulgarians and their patronage in the arts reflects their values: usura.

>>16561750
Somewhat this

>>16562071
>Culture isn't only defined as finery
The leveling has been across the board; most won't observe 'no business or politics' in polite company (meals/gatherings), and if they do they'll still have a television on at family meals

>>16562505
>all of upper class culture is the working class and peasant culture of eras past
More of the bourgeois of a half-century ago. Ratchet this all the way down -- haute boug reflexively putting little jimmy and little jane in piano lessons, aspirational lumpen obsessively fetishizing law and medicine (and acting as if it has the same class cachet from when university matriculation was still highly regulated and required things like more than a passing knowledge of Greek and Latin)