On channel 2 we watched a very interesting program called Brat Camp. Some British brats are sent to a ranch in Utah and re-educated by real cowboys under a very rough, tough, neck-wrecking regime. Instructors are typically former Marine Corps sargents, etc. And a very decent-looking old lady adolescence psychologist. Boy the kids change; well, some of them go back to their old ways. But it's so fun to watch their ordeals culminating in the forced vision quest in the desert.
The brat is a type of human-being that only exists in developped countrys' middle class. They are free from labour, and their existence in a nutshell is "the pure consumer." Production plays no role in their lives, hence non-commitment and irresponsibility. Sounds like you and me? Perhaps.
Capitalism is a system that produces an endless series of brats, young and old.
