As if somehow irony, she recaps for Maxine, as practiced by a giggling mincing fifth column, actually brought on the events of 11 September, by keeping the country insufficiently serious weakening its grip on reality. So all kinds of make-believeforget the delusional state the countrys in alreadymust suffer as well. Everything has to be literal now.Yeah, the kids are even getting it at school. Ms. Cheung, an English teacher who if Kugelblitz were a town would be the neighborhood scold, has announced that there shall be no more fictional reading assignments. Otis is terrified, Ziggy less so. Maxine will walk in on them watching Rugrats or reruns of Rockos Modern Life, and they holler by reflex, Dont tell Ms. Cheung!You notice, Heidi continues, how reality programming is suddenly all over the cable, like dog shit? Of course, its so producers shouldnt have to pay real actors scale. But wait! Theres more! Somebody needs this nation of starers believing theyre all wised up at last, hardened and hip to the human condition, freed from the fictions that led them so astray, as if paying attention to made-up lives was some form of evil drug abuse that the collapse of the towers cured by scaring everybody straight again.
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