[ClumsyPilot]

> We don't, particularly in the west, have the skills, shops/craftsmen, or access to resources

It’s worse than that, most consumers don’t even know what good looks like any more. We are much more restricted and maybe lower variety of experience.

You could serve half the consumers rat meat instead of beef and they wouldn’t know the difference.

> The changes we see in style can be attributed to changes in politics and civilization. Who we are and what we think of ourselves.

There is something to this even if the way this is expressed is clumsy