This is very much The Rebel Sell[0]: "we - never actually had aesthetic tastes at all and have instead lived like little reeds in the wind, terrified of ever a

This is very much The Rebel Sell[0]: "we - never actually had aesthetic tastes at all and have instead lived like little reeds in the wind, terrified of ever appearing to not be The Right Kind of Person, which can only ever be defined through our capitalist consumption, since we think that all we are is our capitalist consumption." [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rebel_Sell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rebel_Sell