> Consider the idea of royalty contained in the princess and the pea- for a princess, complaining about the slightest nuisance is supposed to be not irritating but charming and indeed qualifying.
Trust me to complain about the least important sentence in the post, but I don't think this is the moral of the story. The idea is not that it was charming for her to complain, but that her noticing the pea in the first place proved her identity as someone so used to luxury they could perceive such a slight imperfection.
As I say, it's not exactly an important point, but I can't help myself. And more comments on your post is a good thing, right?
A better camp is provably possible, because we had it - somewhere between the 1960s and 80s in the west, 1980s to early XXI century (still, perhaps, kinda stopped following the trends) in Japan.
The important question is, what happened? There are still the markers, certainly, but something clearly changed, they don't signify what they used to signify. Commodification? Or did it cease being acceptable to the hoi polloi once it ceased being provably low class, ceased requiring acceptability risks to be taken?
> Consider the idea of royalty contained in the princess and the pea- for a princess, complaining about the slightest nuisance is supposed to be not irritating but charming and indeed qualifying.
Trust me to complain about the least important sentence in the post, but I don't think this is the moral of the story. The idea is not that it was charming for her to complain, but that her noticing the pea in the first place proved her identity as someone so used to luxury they could perceive such a slight imperfection.
As I say, it's not exactly an important point, but I can't help myself. And more comments on your post is a good thing, right?
Yes Charming is the wrong word- it should have been the inverse: "qualifying, perhaps even charming"
> A campness that does want to be part of any aristocracy except an aristocracy of all sapience.
Doesn't?
A better camp is provably possible, because we had it - somewhere between the 1960s and 80s in the west, 1980s to early XXI century (still, perhaps, kinda stopped following the trends) in Japan.
The important question is, what happened? There are still the markers, certainly, but something clearly changed, they don't signify what they used to signify. Commodification? Or did it cease being acceptable to the hoi polloi once it ceased being provably low class, ceased requiring acceptability risks to be taken?