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me vs this book which is denser

An important question: why is fancy?

Heeheehee colonial sounding anthropology about European society

Wow, I get it is tongue-in-cheek about the upper classes, but jokes about barbarism and competition and predatory behavior barely disguise the eugenics and racist undertones of the era. No wonder things got ugly later in the twentieth century.

industrial exemption and conservatism, so bucolic and idyllic places, handcrafted things not industrially produced get high status among this crowd, as well as things that show conservative values and traits.