A disturbing prospect
It will be interesting to see, now that the apocalypse has arrived, how various modes of American status-striving will be rejiggered
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[P]erhaps these times of hardship will see a return of the true bohemian, as in the days when the Left Bank was actually squalid. [-]
Even if classic, squalid Bohemia did manage to stage a return, how many denizens could it reasonably expect? We’ve had it both ways for a while now, but if this post-apocalyptic ‘rejiggering’ forces us to align ourselves one way or the other, then wouldn’t everyone these days basically agree that squalor is too high a price to pay for (counter-)culture?
