Post by @mosspiglet
Another insightful thread from our friendly anarchist opossum 🧵🔥
@HeavenlyPossum@kolektiva.social
Many societies throughout history have imposed sumptuary laws. These are restrictions on which people—or, more specifically, which *kinds* of people—can wear or display certain markers of status.
These might be restrictions on who can wear certain colors, or fabrics, or jewelry, or who can publicly carry weapons, and so on. Wealthy and aristocratic elites get one set of public ornamentation and display, while everyone else gets another.
The idea is to create and sustain immediately obvious signifiers of class, status, and wealth—to create and sustain specific *kinds* of public people.