>>2261702I mean some people who talk like this just don't like the modern world and want to RETRN. But it's, like, all that is holy ends up being profaned anyways.
I can be convinced that a lot of the post-war cultural transformation is a lot different than what socialists thought they were fighting for in the 1920s, but often the "anti-idpol" types just chalk it up to some kind of conspiracy rather than trying to work out a material analysis of why this really radical cultural revolution (you might call it) actually did happen. It hasn't affected all parts of the world evenly and there are variations but it can be tracked more or less across the entire modernizing globe.
Really it's just people having more autonomy because of urbanization and improvements in technology (just think about the impact of communications technology) and transportation so people move around a lot more. There has been an increase in purchasing power relative to people living 100 years ago. There are material prerequisites which made big changes in culture possible – which would not have been possible before – and has influenced everything from music to fashion and that is global. And these changes hit modernizing societies very rapidly in historical terms (within a span of a few decades as opposed to centuries where nothing changes) which produces a lot of young people growing up in a very different context from their parents and grandparents, and have no memory or shared experience of what life was like before [insert modern technology here].
Also something can be "bourgeois" and also get appropriated by the working class. Working-class people have at various times taken their styles from high fashion in the upper social strata, working-class girls even more so. It also works the other way with the upper strata trying to LARP as working and class and the spread of American blue jeans as Paris haute couture went into retreat.