re: #111 gocart mozart

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This bullshit reminds me of “family TV” in the 50s and 60s. As a poor but relatively smart kid, I was acutely aware that the “average” families portrayed on TV, the Cleavers et al, were in fact rich compared to my family and to most of the people we knew. Producers did not so much disparage the poor and working class as refuse to acknowledge their existence.
The same was true of minorities. When they were acknowledged, it was always in terms of do-gooder suburban stereotypes rather than real people. Later, with the rise of the “rural” sitcom, poorer people did make an appearance, as oafs and buffoons. It was all very demoralizing, especially to some of my working class contemporaries who were perhaps not as well informed as I was. They were actually about average for the time but came to feel that they were clinging to the fringe, barely part of society at all.