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It is definitively lazy to ascribe to "capitalism" any cultural trend, because indeed that's always going to be a first order explanation for everything, but is
by rixed 1y ago
It is definitively lazy to ascribe to "capitalism" any cultural trend, because indeed that's always going to be a first order explanation for everything, but isn't that even more lazy to "just let people enjoy"?
Maybe there are higher order explanations, some even progressive (I'm not a big connoisseur of pink bow trends, but I suspect there is an element of mockery in there?)
- strken 1y agoI agree. "Just let people enjoy things" is a sentence worthy of a YouTube comment, though, while "capitalism causes everything and therefore anything you want that happens to be popular is bad" is a full essay that quotes Rene Girard then drags in Heidegger and Hegel for good measure.