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[quote=Anonymous]I think in this MBA-ized “Business Major” world we live in now, symbolism and big romantic gestures, particularly traditional ones, are eschewed in favor of hard-line $$$ calculations. Instead of a once-in-a-lifetime gathering of all your loved ones at your wedding, put that money towards a downpayment for a house, etc.

I have mixed feelings. Some of these dying traditions are just holdovers from an old bourgeois world that prided itself on how decorative/useless the women in the household could be, so I’m not against a sea change away from material representations of these old values and attitudes.

But I also appreciate the aesthetics that come out of beauty for beauty’s sake; a world of expressionless, bottom-dollar utilitarianism sounds dull, depressing, and honestly kind of communist to me.

I think as long as everyone is free to choose what works for them and makes sense for them without pressuring or being pressured by others, we’ll be okay. But our society seems to be trending away from this recently.
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