Discussion of the business of "freak" shows

As it pertains to the readings for Thursday, it can be important to pick up the messages being discussed within the articles. However, picking up the real messages not being displayed can be even more enlightening then the ones that are. For the articles discussing the historical background of "freak" shows told a different story within its deeper message. I saw these articles as a discussion of how society went from curious observers to political activists who saw fit to call such amusement shows unfit for proper society to be invovled with. This brought me to think and place myself in the shoes of the working member of the "freak" show. How they must have thought of those same members of society on the surface were supposedly trying to help those less fortunte members of society live a life of peace. Yet in long run those same helpful members of society ruined potentially best form of employment that some of the so called "freaks" could have. As simple members of society, these same "freaks" may still be treating differently because they may not fit the schema of the normal everyday person. But as members of an elite few in a "freak" show they had an individualality, for some few perhaps had some celebrity, and for even fewer members a legacy left behind. These so called "freaks" may have found a chance to find a basic sense of humanity when in "normal" society they may be considered less than human. Which begs the question, would it be so terrible if this art form had a rebirth in popularity? And if it did would you see fit call it unfit for "normal" society to have and take away employment to those members of society that for the most part would not have any other oppurtunities to make a respectable living?