Among those attending the expiring swimmer is a young woman whose smile is perfectly posed for the camera. But as the extended hand under fascism evolved into the clenched fist under communism, so the benign smile of a Fordist economy is transformed into the grimace of economic rationalism. Indeed, the Crown princess is not the aggressor, but a victim bearing her teeth to display her compliance towards the new privatised system. She makes our day. The ideological conflicts characteristic of the cold war, where workers fought bosses and women contested men, have now been replaced by a level playing field.
Girls can be bad because breaking rules is now part of the game.
Living with the rest of us in a material world, they submit to monetary desire just life everyone else. In Melbourne, the sudden collapse of Anglican restraint has left homeless souls vulnerable to the enticements of Pied Pipers leading them to various wheels of fortune. The city is gripped by an epidemic of hope. The suffragette lies dead on the pavement. Witnesses report a photographer lurking suspiciously at the scene of the crime.