I feel like in hindsight JKR must have internalized enough of that classic Gen Xer messaging about the meaninglessness of the suburban world that she knew it was cool to SAY that the Dursleys' lifestyle was a bit naff but was close enough to the Boomers to not really believe ithttps://twitter.com/arthur_affect/status/1266523949770240000 …
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She probably thinks she's cooler than the suburban house white picket fence people because she lives in a giant castle with a huge electrified fence
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy
Yeah I mean it's the same pretty basic "I'm a misfit who hates my shitty normie family and I like [niche-activity/skill/talent] so if I can just escape to Elite [niche-activity/skill/talent] School for college I'll be both free AND their Social Better fantasy as XMEN etc?
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I mean, you want to get nitty-gritty it's more like that was the "pretty version" of how most of the Boomers who were born working class but went to college and became famous authors, musicians, filmmakers etc saw their own personal journey and repeated it...
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...i.e. "Escape the stullifying boring conservative suburbs, 'expand your mind' in College because College is where you meet all the other better-than-their-hometown/families special kids, become The Hero;" and then Gen-X basically absorbed that wholesale along with...
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...the general higher ed insistence culturally; which is where you get this awkward thing in fiction where ALL the good guys are at once the coolest people who basically run the world but also oppressed and shunned by normies who are powerless but... not, somehow.
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Like at least the X-Men there are other powerful things and "checks" on them, I guess? But like HARRY POTTER... there's *zero* reason for all the secrecy other than "It's a kids story and kids like when adults don't know about fun things."
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The main issue is that JKR didn't actually learn anything or broaden her horizons in any significant way as a result of all this, she has the same obnoxious conservative value system as everyone else in her demographic
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