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Overanalysis of Mad Men
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Overanalysis of Mad Men

I watch Mad Men to make fun of how glib and full of itself it has become, but what I enjoy most is to read those geniuses at slate write not one but four articles (including one from our favorite girl, Hanna Rosin). The following article, however was interesting in how it shows how the concepts of game and alpha/betaness are universal, just translated in different languages:

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/tv_cl...paper.html


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I had a friend who, for many years in the 1990s, worked at a bordello in New York City. She managed the appointments. “It changed me,” she told me. “I’d walk down the street and divide up the men. John, john, not john, john.” She couldn’t explain the difference; it was just something she knew. We were out one day and ran into a friend of hers, a lady with a kid in a stroller. “Three years,” said my friend when we were around the block. “That’s how long she spent on her back.”

Alpha, beta, not a john, john.

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Pete is of course a john. What did you think of his amazing pad? Poor Trudy; she tried to create a system that could work for Pete, to give him what he wanted while keeping up appearances, but the man couldn’t even operate at that base level. Which is why his apartment is so hilarious; he’s surrounded by sophistication at work, and given the opportunity to be a player he came up with that insane coat rack. The man is a monster. Trudy tried to make it easy for him and he was too dumb to see it.

She ain't leaving him for the adultery

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And why? Because to hell with Herb, that’s why. And why that? Well, think about how Don sees clients. Think about how he sees power. His mother died; his father died; and he’s left with his stepmother Abigail, pregnant with the boy who would be Adam, the brother he will betray. And here they are in a bordello with “Uncle Mac,” whom Don, in seasons prior, remembered fondly. Mac is unambiguously in charge; a rooster running the henhouse (not always the most subtle writing, is it?). We finally see the man who will guide Don into adulthood. “Find your own sins,” says one of the prostitutes. “Stay away from Mac.” He does the opposite; he peeps through the keyhole to see Mac atop Abigail (who hated Don for being a whore's son). A huge lesson in hypocrisy and power.

Shows how the game of life is game-in all of its aspects (sex, business).
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