If life shifts one way, it can also shift back. It is possible to imagine a reversal, so that something approaching a social contact, or a feeling of public sprits, a contempt for indecent expenditure, an embarrassment at vulgar display, or simply a desire to leave as modest a footprint as possible, begins to take over our sense of what we can expect from ourselves and others? We know that there are cultures in which it is poor form to shout that you are a taller poppy than any other.