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I think Mr. Johnson deserves alot of credit for exposing that dirty little secret Americans don't like to discuss in public: class. To put him down as a spoiled little rich kid misses the entire point of the discussion his film will create throughout our society. Mr. Johnson didn't choose to be born rich. And unless you were born into his level of society you don't realize the added and different pressures put upon him during his upbringing. I was born into a middle class family, and I really wouldn't have wanted the intense pressure and scrutiny a wealthy family puts on a young child growing up. Everyone desires wealth and the toys and accoutrements that come with having an immense amount of cash. Isn't it amazing from the few clips from his film how his family reacts to the mere mention of class? It opens raw unspoken wounds in our society. Look at what class has brought about, particularly to families like the Carnegies and Vanderbilts at the end of the 19th century, the strikes and uprisings of the lower class demanding better working conditions and salaries and the creation of the unions throughout american business. Class defines us, where we live, how we are educated, what we wear, how we talk, who we interact with. In a perfect world we'd live in a classless society, but I don't believe that was ever possible in America. Watching the pbs documentary on current day americans portraying pilgrims and early north american settlers a few years back, their society created an early class structure of the haves and have nots literally the moment the mayflower dropped anchor off the shores of massachusetts. I look forward to viewing this film in it's entirety when it is released and I urge everyone to do so, maybe in doing so we will become more open minded and socially conscious of everyone in our country, not just those who make the same salary and live in the same subdivision.