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.
i don’t think we have a 1:1 equivalent because we didn’t develop the same social class structure. i’d just directly say “fancy” or “upper class” or “rich” etc depending on what aspect was most relevant.