Big Top Burger functions as a portrait of how different personality types deal with the irrational/impossible, from "this is fine" (Penny) to "this is not fine but it can be reasoned with" (Tim) to "this cannot be reasoned with but I only sort of care" (Billie) in this essay I wi

While Tim's "the ways in which this is strange are normal" perhaps best personifies it, each character's response to Steve - deflection, minimization, and acceptance - typify the bone-deep unwillingness to engage or confront collapses of reason core to American centrism. Furtherm

Employees at Big Top Burger collectively embody the principles of See No Evil (Penny), Hear No Evil (Tim), and Speak No Evil (Billie). Each is defined by refusal: to acknowledge, to engage, and to address, respectively.

They refuse the nonsensical to make a wage, as must we all.

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Were the Invisible Hand of the Market real, it would be Steve. We must all parade and perform as though the Invisible Hand is real, but, at the end of the work day, the greasepaint washes off.

Steve's does not, cannot.

Only fiction can contain him.

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