/lit/ - Literature

>>14668530
>1500 and the rise of international capitalism
This is one of the most insane eras of decadence in history, the human ego goes completely out of control, and capitalism doesn't come about until the 1700s.
Why would we not say instead that modern economics is the result of this ego of babel?

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>>13304045
>Ah, yesse, I uerilye do belieue that a penchante for the finest Chinese perfume boxes and Italian stocking does indeede secure a man's cultured exigence before G-d and quantifies nature with the uerisimilitvde of Evropean traditione.

>Hipster
meh...
>Basedboy
Yawn
>Metrosexual
Sigh... how derivative and boring
>Nu-male
That's just the basedboy meme all over again
>Dandy
Too masculine still...
>Fop
Hm, better... better, yes, better
>Popinjay
*raises powdered eyebrow*
Oh, I'm titillated, well, if I could be aroused, my dear anons. What next?

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>There is indeed a kind of animal, neither male nor female, a thing of the neuter gender, lately [1770] started up among us. It is called a macaroni. It talks without meaning, it smiles without pleasantry, it eats without appetite, it rides without exercise, it wenches without passion.
>Macaroni
MON DIEU! IT'S PERFECT!

>>10575510
>>10575996
>>10576036
>>10576064
>>10576155
>>10576349
>>10580311

"Pseud" is the /lit/ equivalent of Holden Caulfield's "phony"

>>7973625
Literally google.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaroni_%28fashion%29

Haven't you ever taken a history class?