[cma]

What's interesting is that it isn't a new phenomenon; Veblen wrote about our strange lawn-care fetishism in The Theory of the Leisure Class in 1899.

[jackvalentine]

Sayed Kotb also commented on it after his visit to the United States in the 1940s, considering it a vulgar preoccupation.

For all his many faults, I feel he was on to something there.