ever since the enlightenment coffee shops have been associated casual philosophizing(at least in Britain and North America). Is there a particular reason the upper middle class of the 18th century opted to congregate around non alcoholic beverages(unlike wine drinking classical thinkers)?

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tkzd

Probably because too much booze makes you dumb and say things that are dumb while all too much coffee will do is make your colon really clean.