Life the movie
by Neal Gabler · first published 1998
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You might appreciate "Life: The Movie" if you haven't already read it. The author details the ways in which entertainment has become the metric by which many Americans judge their lives.
on “Pics from 8th graders successful 100k foot high flight, $200 ballon” ↗There was an interesting book called Life, the Movie written back in the late '90s that argued people were even then already so steeped in entertainment media that they had internalized the mechanics of story and viewed their own lives through them: http://www.amazon.com/Life-Movie-Entertainment-Conquered-Rea...…
on “The dangerous idea that life is a story” ↗