• ComradeSalad
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    Also most peasants and poorer people in general relied heavily on subsistence farming till far into the 20th century, and a clear field/“lawn” indicated you were rich enough to the point where you could buy your food and not worry about feeding yourself.

    • culpritus [any]@hexbear.net
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      Yes, this alongside the enclosure that came along of common lands. It’s the aesthetics of ‘old wealth’ repackaged for the common folk. This is partly why I recommend Ways of Seeing to new lefties all the time. So much of the cultural aesthetics of western capitalism has been directly lifted from aristocratic cultures of Europe and just slightly repackaged. There’s even ‘old Hollywood’ aesthetics that are like a xerox of a xerox, etc.

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        So much of the cultural aesthetics of western capitalism has been directly lifted from aristocratic cultures of Europe and just slightly repackaged.

        The prevalence of children’s stories involving kings, queens and princesses is something that has bothered me more than it should.