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Interesting. I had thought of it as a modern thing. I'm going to poke around and do some reading. As a Sang-sympathizer, this sort of thing is fascinating to me.

The couple came back... and had the nerve to complain

That takes a serious sense of entitlement to steal something and then complain when the owner takes it back. It's a funny story, though.

Ecce Bombo

I've never heard of this movie, but it sounds interesting. I'll try to find it.

down phase as a society

Yeah, I feel like sensitive misfits and dropouts are sort of the canary in the coalmine of modern society. I have a lot of friends who are NEETs and the like, and I think it means we're in for a rough decade or two.