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NO ONE WANTS TO HEAR a stage-development theory for the American class system. The very phrase "stage-development" offends half the world, let alone applying it to a national family secret ?the American class system. We don't welcome a theory that says adults can and should change; we keenly don't want to hear any theory that says whole enclaves of adults can change. We literary people nearly curl our lips at expressions like "personality change," even though in the next breath we may argue that what's needed for the ghetto is "education." Well, and what if "education" ? some sort of education, at least?is what's needed for the mentally idle, suffocating, bored middle-class American sprawled in the family room? There may be such a canny and humane kind of education already designed, already in use in the world: there may already be such a stunning intervention, if you can use the expression "intervention" in things cultural, that if our family room TV addict could experience it he or she would leave off glaring at Bill Cowher's new quarterback; he or she would abandon forever the desultory and dreamless conversations, laced with kidding. He or she would become, willfully, a serious human being. Everyone, individually or in groups, has some psychological wants that don't work out very nicely for other people. One psychological want I have noticed in privileged, educated people is their idea that nothing can change the half-educated or discultivated or totally uneducated middle class American sprawled in the family room. Oh! ?of course the ghetto person and the ghetto enclave must be educated so they can change?but the American middle-class person is off-limits. Apparently there is some thing terrifying about the idea of re-educating this type of middle-class per son. Although uneducated or half-cultivated or discultivated middle-class people are the butt of all novelists: there is not any writer I know of who wants the working-class protagonist to rise and join the sneering, kidding, cynical middle class. Non-intellectual, often non-voting, non-thinking, non-imaginative people are the villains in all literatures. We all hate the

Kidding in the Family Room: Literature and America's Psychological Class System