(who are the popped-collar college bound of an 80s movie) are the villains?
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Replying to @ValidOfPriors
Plus, diminishing of visible and aspirational distinctions b/w lower and upper middle class?
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e.g. "everyone" goes to Starbucks, has a comparable smartphone, college-bound "nice" girls likely to have visible tatoos
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If anything, the dynamic is reversed- villains are likely to be the truck-driving, Walmarting, McMansioning exurbanite
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The super-rich industrialist tycoon is still tediously likely to be the villain- that never changes.
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re aspiriational goods: maybe everyone goes to Starbucks, not everyone has eg Google Glass or a Tesla Roadster
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I think the key thing is picking out "near" higher-status outgroup members for depiction as pompous twits
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and there are some consumption choices that maybe are affordable but not chosen because of their class implications
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mocking say gluten paranoids or vegan shoe enthusiasts seems like low-hanging fruit. But instead truck drivers are villains!
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idk seems like historically low-grade upward class war in art was a safety valve of sorts and now it's implicitly verboten
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give as much epistemic weight as you would any other armchair social hypothesis written by a robot
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