Set it in the 50s too. Hell maybe even do a reverse Pleasantville where the Current Year people go back and realize holy shit this is way better and people were legit happier when they were "oppressed".
Haha whistling that Andy Griffith Show tune and everything
I guess the moral would be that you can be happy anywhere and with anything, and that "liberation" doesn't liberate you from a whole hell of a lot - you can juxtapose all kinds of truthisms and sophistries around eachother as to why you're the most oppressed creature that ever was and why you should rule/henpeck everyone from the safety of your perch of entitlement, it doesn't liberate you from yourself. If she got what she initially wanted she'd be miserable and she'd live a life making everyone else miserable.
I think the main thing is consistency. If you know the way things are and can be reasonably certain they will stay that way you can find your niche and work to improve yourself within those constraints. When things keep changing that becomes very difficult.
No one alive in the West has seen anything resembling consistency. What they are taught as a child is "good" is fundamentally different to what is "good" 30, 60, and 90 years later. That is probably one of the very few common denominators all of us here have: we were taught certain values when we were children that today is a complete 180 (and if you're on the older side maybe you've experienced this more than once) to what are taught now, and we're all sitting here trying to make sense of how the hell that could have happened and why no one else seems to have a problem with that.
Set it in the 50s too. Hell maybe even do a reverse Pleasantville where the Current Year people go back and realize holy shit this is way better and people were legit happier when they were "oppressed".
Haha whistling that Andy Griffith Show tune and everything
I guess the moral would be that you can be happy anywhere and with anything, and that "liberation" doesn't liberate you from a whole hell of a lot - you can juxtapose all kinds of truthisms and sophistries around eachother as to why you're the most oppressed creature that ever was and why you should rule/henpeck everyone from the safety of your perch of entitlement, it doesn't liberate you from yourself. If she got what she initially wanted she'd be miserable and she'd live a life making everyone else miserable.
I think the main thing is consistency. If you know the way things are and can be reasonably certain they will stay that way you can find your niche and work to improve yourself within those constraints. When things keep changing that becomes very difficult.
No one alive in the West has seen anything resembling consistency. What they are taught as a child is "good" is fundamentally different to what is "good" 30, 60, and 90 years later. That is probably one of the very few common denominators all of us here have: we were taught certain values when we were children that today is a complete 180 (and if you're on the older side maybe you've experienced this more than once) to what are taught now, and we're all sitting here trying to make sense of how the hell that could have happened and why no one else seems to have a problem with that.