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Any time leftists complain about the "excesses" of modern life it always boils down to this: It is a reaction by rich people who realize the middle class is enjoying the things only they used to enjoy. What usually follows is government action that taxes or restricts the use by the middle class of what only rich libs deserve.

A few cases in point:

When only rich people had mobile phones, use was unrestricted. Now we need laws to prevent the little guy from using one in a car, restaurant, public transit, etc.

When only rich people could publish books, movies, articles, anything went. Controversial works of art were looked upon favorably by the elites. Now that virtually everyone can publish worldwide over the Internet, we must have regulation.

There's lot's of examples that go back to the beginning of industialized society. The liberals hate it when technology and capitalist wealth building allow so many to enjoy their lifestyle.

I think you're on the right track, but I don't think that that's quite it. Liberals--rich, middle-class, and poor--have an ideal in their head of how the world should be and everyone else must conform to that ideal. In their ideal world, the vast majority of people are pleasant peasants living on little family farms with red barns and picket fences, raising tasty organic foods. This pastoral paradise is periodically broken by sprawling academies where the academic enlightened ones debate esoteric, erudite, rarified things that the peons can't possibly understand, but that's okay because they are well cared for by the benevolent elites. Then there are the big cities, inhabited by these same benevolent elites (which the fantasizing liberal is naturally a member of), who live in gleaming high rises and spend there days partaking in trendy and eclectic "culture" with those in circle. Occasionally, they enjoy observing the simpler lifestyle of the peasantry, which they do by weekending in mansions in the country, where they can visit farmer's markets and main street mom-and-pop stores in between their skiing outings. In this world, there likely is also a proleteriat whose job it is to provide an "authentic urban culture" experience to which the elites can condescend.

We all may have fantasies of our ideal world from time to time. We wish everyone would act the way we want them to act. We wish everyone would live in the kind of houses we want them to. But mature people realize that while it is okay to whimsically fantasize of utopias, it is not okay to try to impose on people in the real world, which liberals constantly try to do, primarily through the governmental mandate, as well as by taking control of our societal instituations and manipulating them to their own agenda.