My drunk thoughts 🍸
I'm noticing an uptick in films and series that glorify this poverty-stricken, Appalachian, inner city, Detroit, etc lifestyle.
If you've ever lived in this situation, the last thing you would ever want to do is glorify it. It is difficult beyond your wildest imaginings. To live like that is to know that death might just be right around the corner. You don't know when you're going to eat again. You don't know if you're going to have new clothes for the following school year. You don't know when you're going to see your parents again because they're out there working to try to keep the roof over your head.
I understand the novelty of it to rich people who have never seen an existence like that. And I also understand that some people (like Charles Dickens did for the slums of London) want to raise awareness that most of America is still living this way. I just don't like the fact that rich white America looks upon Appalachian poverty as some nostalgic, heartland bullshit storytelling. It's real life for a lot of us. And it's damn sure not entertaining to us who lived it.
If you've ever lived in this situation, the last thing you would ever want to do is glorify it. It is difficult beyond your wildest imaginings. To live like that is to know that death might just be right around the corner. You don't know when you're going to eat again. You don't know if you're going to have new clothes for the following school year. You don't know when you're going to see your parents again because they're out there working to try to keep the roof over your head.
I understand the novelty of it to rich people who have never seen an existence like that. And I also understand that some people (like Charles Dickens did for the slums of London) want to raise awareness that most of America is still living this way. I just don't like the fact that rich white America looks upon Appalachian poverty as some nostalgic, heartland bullshit storytelling. It's real life for a lot of us. And it's damn sure not entertaining to us who lived it.
41-45, F
