That especially if you hung out with the older men in his family -- a lot of them very culturally Greek, still speaking with accents, still rolling their eyes at a lot of garbage about American politics and culture, very socially liberal and anti-xenophobia and so on
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But they were all capitalist *as fuck* It was the one part of their politics that was unshakable It was the whole damn reason they were here They never stopped believing in *that part* of the American Dream -- anyone can get rich if they work hard, if they deserve it
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Beyond "Greek culture" or "American culture", beneath everything else, this was a core value that their whole identity revolved around they would not let go of until they fucking died Fuck the socialists, fuck the taxmen, fuck the regulators, I'm still waiting for my come up
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(This is... *extremely* resonant with my experience with older Asian-American guys Like eerily so)
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(It's also very reminiscent of Walter Lee's arc in A Raisin in the Sun, a play that revolves around the desperate struggle of one family to move out to the suburbs and everything the suburbs represent)
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It's the theme of one of my favorite plays I've ever read in my entire life that I've never actually seen in performance (and am afraid to in case it ruins my memory of reading it), Chay Yew's Wonderland Seek it out if you can, it's a gut punch
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To me that's like the core thing WandaVision is about Knowing that the American Dream is a bullshit dream that hurts people It's never really paid out what it advertised Those white picket fences hide a whole legacy of repression and abuse and suffering and pain
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The rich families who Had It All back in the Good Old Days had tons of alcoholism and drug addiction and kids running away from home and couples eventually messily divorcing and people hitting midlife crises and writing long screeds about how Everything Is Bullshit
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I dunno. It feels like what attracted Wanda was that it was tv specifically, not necessarily 1950s American suburbia. That's why she kept moving forward a decade every day. That's why she was literally broadcasting. If she's just living in a family sitcom, then no one has to die.
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Nah I don't think it's just that "Moving forward in time" wasn't just this arbitrary "Let's take a tour of TV history" thing It absolutely was this thematic idea -- "The idyllic nuclear family of Wanda's dream disintegrates in the same way the collective dream did in real life"
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This is basically explicitly stated in the theme song of the 2000s Malcolm in the Middle episode ("Let's Keep It Goin'") and then in everything about the 2010s Modern Family/The Office episode (where the Hex is literally glitching and destabilizing)
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