Maxine's Addiction

[Markekohut]

> Late capitalism is entertainment for the struggling hangers -on and the perpetrators....
  What's that BE line? Everything that happens can be turned into a musical comedy??
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> Sent from my iPad
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> On Dec 27, 2013, at 9:32 PM, Fiona Shnapple <fionashnapple at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Who isn't? Or wasn't. All the characters in BE were so hooked on entertainment they couldn't quit, so they joined. It's an orgy. Shawn, for example, is addicted to The Brady Bunch, his clients know it and can't stop talking about Shawn's addiction to the BB. Max's Parents don't much care for Lincoln Center, politically they are with March who hates the place, but you can't keep them away from its Opera House, The Met. They love to argue opera, consider the lessons to be learned from an opera, like Tosca, indispensable, a cultural literacy that they make sure their grandchildren get. 
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>> But Max is a special case because she is the protagonist and she is addicted to digging into the dirt on powerful white collar criminals, and her jones ain't shopping, it's shooting. 
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>> On Friday, December 27, 2013, David Morris wrote:
>>> P. 83:  Is she thinking about hawalas, hashslingerz, even Reg's personal safety, actually no, it's that deco-derivative shuttle terminal of Lucas and Justin's that might or might not get her access to Deep Archer. [...] find her way through the maze.
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>>> The maze Max wishes to pursue is akin to fantasy quest video games.  Max is hooked on a video game.  She is hooked on entertainment .
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