One aspect of President Obama’s philosophically revealing — and mock-worthy — “Julia” web ad doesn’t seem to have garnered as much attention as one might have expected. Just as Julia’s life of government dependency isn’t likely to inspire a new set of books along the lines of the celebration of self-reliance and freedom depicted in the Little House on the Prairie series, her romantic life isn’t likely to spawn any sequels to Jane Austen novels.

Julia, of course, is the fictional subject of the newly released Obama ad. She leads a rather bland, conformist, and dependent life — a life more reminiscent of the centrally planned lives in Brave New World than of the vibrant lives led by so many Americans from the founding generation, through the era of Abraham Lincoln and Huckleberry Finn, to the present day.  Throughout the ad, we’re shown what Julia is doing at various points in her life with the help of the Obama administration’s myriad regulations and taxpayer-funded federal programs.