Addiction, Celebrity, Public Shaming & Truth: The Performance Art of James Frey, Celebrated Writer of Ill-Repute
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I think money is the most addictive, most destructive, most powerful drug of all. More than anything, America is a classist country, right? It's a fucking caste system. And the rich live a very different life than not. There are no consequences.
There are no repercussions. There is no danger. It is a playground and people get real bored in that playground. And when people get real bored and they have literally everything in existence at their disposal, shit gets a little weird.
I'm not a journalist. I'm a guy who wrote a book about addiction. I won't stop, I won't stop, I won't stop. I wanna fuck it up. I wanna burn it down.
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