There was an interesting book called <i>Life, the Movie</i> written back in the late &#x27;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: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Life-Movie-Entertainment-Conquered-Reality&#x2F;dp&#x2F;0375706534&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.com&#x2F;Life-Movie-Entertainment-Conquered-Rea...</a><p>I was reminded of the book and its argument the other day while watching David Simon&#x27;s HBO miniseries <i>Show Me a Hero</i>, so I wrote a blog post about the connection: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;jasonlefkowitz.net&#x2F;2015&#x2F;08&#x2F;show-me-a-hero-and-the-limits-of-life-the-movie&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;jasonlefkowitz.net&#x2F;2015&#x2F;08&#x2F;show-me-a-hero-and-the-lim...</a>