Drug dealing and drug dealers respond to a city's authority, and not the inverse. A city wants to assimilate this power for itself. The work wants its truth and untruth to be grasped. W. Adorno, Aesthetic Theory Dope Wars is the artful reflection and reduction of this world into a world of its own, in which all parts are jumbled and reassigned. Addiction is to the game itself, not to the drugs within the game.
Business acumen is relied upon as one is drawn into the rhythms of market price fluctuations.
Dope Wars, as artwork, manifests a city beyond either truth or irony. By reaching beyond the limits of our irony, it returns the player to his or her sanctified reality. I'm amazed by structures, shapes, footsteps, what people say in casual conversation. I was accidentally ignoring before. I feel, too, like I've escaped the terror resounding in daily life that sums in death for all of us.