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We are not reaching the end of the sitcom television genre.It is far too valuable a tool for setting the mood for the public, let alone presenting the 'role models' for the public to admire and emulate.Let's take a comprehensive look at the role of sit-coms in 'directing' the general population:
The brain's functions are defined as 'rational' and 'emotive': our emotions give us direction for our actions while our logical function determines a logical (more-or-less depending on the individual)course of action toward that direction.Humor can be a very valuable emotion to a party wishing to lessen the effectiveness of another party's logic.Of course, some parties would take advantage of such a situation:

The word amuse (a-muse) means, literally, to not think.In our nation's recent past, there was an epoch when the non-white population (primarily African-Americans, Latinos, and Asians) were impelled - often by dint of lethal threat - to present a smiling countenance (Rastus, Chinese house-boy,...etc) in the presence of whites, for the express purpose of creating a feeling of intellectual superiority for the whites.Indeed, historically, a review of human behavior shows that, generally, a perennially-smiling countenance is a trademark of imbeciles and lunatics.Not so, say the behaviorists of the last several decades:
The message since the 60's has been that the next best thing to having a spontaneous smile on your face is keeping a fake one there (and this is equal-opportunity!), not just as a sign that you yourself are a mentally-stable, 'healthy' individual but, also, that to fail to do so is to reveal yourself to be a decidedly miserable,'negative' individual who is 'obviously' trying to 'bring down' the good-humor of those about you.Though patently false, this is a powerful tool when employed by "peer-pressure" advocates.Example: there are many politicians who won't begin any contacts with constituents without first bracing the group with a postured "mirthful'('humorous','whimsic al' etal.) expression and checking to see if it is being returned by all:if such is not the case, the offending party(s) may then be humorously(cheerfully,etal) chided as to their 'bad'('hostile', 'anti-social' etal) nature(s) and judged to be,'obviously', biased against the pol (or just 'sour', 'embittered', 'disillusioned', etal,types) unless they project good cheer in return.This, of course, cuts down on the numbers of critics -'serious'

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