[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Where have we seen this kind of excess...hmmmm...

Through out history? This is how the very rich have always lived, the only difference is that now many more people are, by past standards, fabulously wealthy.

Now the upper middle class finds such items with in reach as for the rest of us, we can read about it.

[WorkingClassFilth]

True enough. It's the mainstreaming that is the thing. It is genuinely contrary to the bedrock principles of our culture and only inflames resentment and desire - flaunting, if you will. Historic Americanism values work, thrift and Judeo-Christian values but, hey, food eaten in secret is sweet - as the Bible says. It also says that those who eat dainties shall eat dung cakes. I'm not calling for an abolition of this kind of behavior, just regret that the culture is so sodden with idiocy to the detriment of solid values that will carry the most people the longest distance.