The entertainment market as a closed appetite-loop — the audience has "decided what it wants to need" and the only…
echoes
From: Signifying Rappers: Rap and Race in the Urban Present
- Early text: D., justifying the book itself in the market's own voice: "The headlong pursuit of present-tense pleasure, after all, has risen to chief among American rights; no? And since a whole mainstream’s pretty much decided what it wants to need, apparently, the biggest challenge is just the new old one: how to get you to buy." [d-1c:p5] [e-text]; cf. D.'s self-portrait as a TV-addicted insomniac "coming more and more to prefer the commercials to the shows" [d-1b:p4]
- IJ echo: the pursuit-of-pleasure USA of the Marathe/Steeply colloquies — why Americans would choose the Entertainment (scene 072, pp. 317-321) and the freedom/temple argument (scene 035, pp. 105-109; scene 088, pp. 418-430); EUP's TV-as-malignant-addiction thesis sits exactly between.
- Weight: prefiguration