I also love dumbing down stories and white collars becoming working class redneck, but i would like to know what do you like most about those themes and why.

Hmm…well, I’m going separate those two out, because they are actually pretty different, even though the second usually entails the first to some extent. Dumbing down is, I think, appealing to me in different ways depending on the story. In the context of a revenge story, it can be satisfying to have a character who lords their intellect over all else be reduced to an idiot, but that kind of assumes that intellect is intrinsically good, and a lack of intellect intrinsically bad, and I don’t necessarily feel that way. I think that dumbing down can be positive as well, to put it differently, in that thinking simpler is often a way of thinking wiser. Intellect can over complicate the world, and often leads to as many problems as it solves–having that taken away can free characters sometimes, and that freedom is an interesting idea to explore.

As for white collar to rednecks, I pretty much resent business culture and everything about it and trailer trash is generally considered it’s opposition. Having the first become the second is the simplest contrapasso, I suppose, though again, country life has it’s benefits. I think it helps to remember that dealing in stereotypes, while usually sexy, is not true to life in any sense. But again, I think that the appeal of rednecks in pop culture, and in porn, is that similar sense of freedom, which people long for, I think. But in this case, rather than it being a personal freedom, a freedom from the qualities holding you back, it’s instead a freedom from a culture which is overly restrictive and demeaning. 

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