That's a classic effect of a new frontier on a society with a calcified social/economic order. You're all right, we ought to have something like that happening.
Speaking of things that happen, I just realized that there's another unexpected by-blow of the SLA: by having such a broad definition of the genre(s) as to include fairy tales, and declaring them legally obscene, that makes every parent who reads a fairy tale to their child a sex offender, with all the joy and happiness that entails in the American legal system...
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
Speaking of things that happen, I just realized that there's another unexpected by-blow of the SLA: by having such a broad definition of the genre(s) as to include fairy tales, and declaring them legally obscene, that makes every parent who reads a fairy tale to their child a sex offender, with all the joy and happiness that entails in the American legal system...
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.