The Extremes

It's a common practice to exaggerate in order to illustrate the absurdity of certain perspectives. It's often employed in politics. In Anti-Pamela, the polar opposite of Pamela, a viciously driven and immoral girl pursues her material and social desire without the slightest regard for the conditions of the people around her.    Now, I don't have much credence for the literal Pamela story, nor do I have any for Anti-Pamela.

I've treated both as little more than symbolic gestures of the greater society at large from two entirely opposite perspectives. Although I won't go so far as to say that such actions do not take place, I would not dare claim that they are so frequent as to be an epidemic to justify social upheaval.

I value Pamela not for it's plot or other thematic qualities, but in it's ability to reduce greater societal tensions and struggles into personal relationships with which I can relate without being overburdened by the complexities of geo-politics or economics.

The truth is to be found in the middle ground. But without any doubt, the power will always be the disenfranchised at the end of the day. What meager exploits the poor may manage to procure through a combination of wit and appearance is trivial in the shadow of the life-time of exploitation that they must endure.