The Entertainment isn’t candy or beer. Look at Boston just now. You can’t compare this kind of insidious enslaving process to your little cases of sugar and soup.’ Marathe smiled bleakly into the chiaroscuro flesh of this round and hairless U.S.A. face. ‘Perhaps the facts are true, after the first watching: that then there seems to be no choice. But to decide to be this pleasurably entertained in the first place. This is still a choice, no? Sacred to the viewing self, and free? No? Yes?’
So I think in the big picture the Marathe/Steeply stuff is clunkier and could have been tightened up, but raising this question also opens us up to the universe(s) of addiction, dependency, unhealthy selfishness, and competition. A good illustration of the core of this book being extremely significant, while the presentation often tends to extremes.
