I feel like anti-intelectualism has won. People can be given free audiobooks, the physical book, etc but they refuse to read because they view reading theory as bad or some bullshit. I have a friend and she thinks “its posh” to read theory. It seems like everyone has fallen for the propaganda that the only people who read theory are rich white college students. It fucking pisses me off.
My zoomer younger sister calls stuff “bougie”
Yeah but bougie can mean spending an entire paycheck on a gucci belt or a hotel room. Most of the time when that term is used it’s by someone with poor spending habits trying to appear bougie
Yeah I think that’s become a relatively common phrase the last few years, but I’m willing to bet the majority of people don’t know it’s origin as a contraction of bourgeoise
And its counterpart ‘bolshy’ (meaning brash, strident but also used to mean callous, overbearing) from Bolsheviks