four-point restraints: the Entertainment as terminal addiction

The Entertainment described in pure addiction vocabulary, the theme's abstract panel (T7) made a clinical exhibit. Hoyne's end-state is the lever-rat's (scene 096) rendered in a human ward: restrained, tube-fed, stripped of every drive but the one — "no desire or even basic survival-type will for anything other than more viewing" — begging for a fix ("a trailer, a snatch of soundtrack, anything") with the eyes of "some drug-addicted newborn." The scene insists the Entertainment is not sui generis but the purest instance of the theme's whole subject: reward decoupled from survival, the substance-cage with the electrode's efficiency, the addict reduced to a mouth wanting only the next dose. It is the p-terminal's promise kept.