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cma
on Aug 30, 2010
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Clean People Feel Morally Superior
What's interesting is that it isn't a new phenomenon; Veblen wrote about our strange lawn-care fetishism in The Theory of the Leisure Class in 1899.
jackvalentine
on Aug 30, 2010
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Sayed Kotb also commented on it after his visit to the United States in the 1940s, considering it a vulgar preoccupation.
For all his many faults, I feel he was on to something there.
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