Abishai100
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- Sep 22, 2013
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Someone should make a very figurative documentary about the history and depth of capitalism, since it's the primary economic-political theory that crystallizes the sustainability of most major modern socio-political (and even cultural!) contracts.
I'd like to see such a documentary presenting capitalism as a 'perspective' on the agreements regarding the ambition to gain resources, since of course, ambition is such a 'weighty' mental concept.
For example, a capitalism-documentary might compare the ambition allegory in the fictional character of Captain Ahab (the iconic obsessed seafaring hunter chasing a nearly-mythical giant whale) from Melville's Moby Dick to the ambition symbolism found in the fictional Marvel comic book super-villain Gray Goblin (a rebellious and ambitious mutated terror and son of the heroic and humble Spider-Man).
Ahab represents classic-world ambitions (e.g., Industrial Revolution, printing-press, etc.), while Gray Goblin represents new-world ambitions (e.g., Wall Street, European Union, DreamWorks, etc.).
Such a 'thematic' capitalism-documentary would highlight our fascination with 'governance-analysis' which is valuable for TrumpUSA, no?
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"America was admiring the presidential work of Teddy Roosevelt and those who came before him to reveal a new 'golden road' of trade-based global customs and why the USA could become the world's true 'Big Brother' (rather than crudely a 'fat-cat capitalist empire'). America was chasing that proverbial elusive 'Utopian capitalism-whale' and perhaps Teddy Roosevelt was something like Captain Ahab (the obsessed seaman hunting a mythical whale) from Melville's ambition-symbolic Moby Dick!
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America had come a long way since the early days of the Industrial Revolution. The drama was now in Silicon Valley and Wall Street. Consumerism had exploded since the 1980s, and new age social leaders catered to commerce-based contracts (and customs!). Newly-elected U.S. President Donald Trump (a former casino-baron) was a diplomat of this new age 'capitalism flowery.' America was more or less behaving like the world's Big Brother, and its successes in computers (IBM, Apple), fast-food (Burger King, McDonald's), consumer batteries (Energizer, Duracell), and toys (Fisher-Price, Mattel) made it a pioneer in consumerism-based global consciousness. Ambition was different now; it was more network-based and hence akin to the anarchy-meditation symbolism of the Marvel Comics super-villain Gray Goblin (real name: Gabriel Stacy) a very rebellious 'son-of-perdition' who represents all the bravado of the modern American city. Where is America heading, and how will future historians regard 'capitalism-ambition' in American culture/history?"
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{CAPTAIN AHAB & GRAY GOBLIN}
I'd like to see such a documentary presenting capitalism as a 'perspective' on the agreements regarding the ambition to gain resources, since of course, ambition is such a 'weighty' mental concept.
For example, a capitalism-documentary might compare the ambition allegory in the fictional character of Captain Ahab (the iconic obsessed seafaring hunter chasing a nearly-mythical giant whale) from Melville's Moby Dick to the ambition symbolism found in the fictional Marvel comic book super-villain Gray Goblin (a rebellious and ambitious mutated terror and son of the heroic and humble Spider-Man).
Ahab represents classic-world ambitions (e.g., Industrial Revolution, printing-press, etc.), while Gray Goblin represents new-world ambitions (e.g., Wall Street, European Union, DreamWorks, etc.).
Such a 'thematic' capitalism-documentary would highlight our fascination with 'governance-analysis' which is valuable for TrumpUSA, no?
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"America was admiring the presidential work of Teddy Roosevelt and those who came before him to reveal a new 'golden road' of trade-based global customs and why the USA could become the world's true 'Big Brother' (rather than crudely a 'fat-cat capitalist empire'). America was chasing that proverbial elusive 'Utopian capitalism-whale' and perhaps Teddy Roosevelt was something like Captain Ahab (the obsessed seaman hunting a mythical whale) from Melville's ambition-symbolic Moby Dick!
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America had come a long way since the early days of the Industrial Revolution. The drama was now in Silicon Valley and Wall Street. Consumerism had exploded since the 1980s, and new age social leaders catered to commerce-based contracts (and customs!). Newly-elected U.S. President Donald Trump (a former casino-baron) was a diplomat of this new age 'capitalism flowery.' America was more or less behaving like the world's Big Brother, and its successes in computers (IBM, Apple), fast-food (Burger King, McDonald's), consumer batteries (Energizer, Duracell), and toys (Fisher-Price, Mattel) made it a pioneer in consumerism-based global consciousness. Ambition was different now; it was more network-based and hence akin to the anarchy-meditation symbolism of the Marvel Comics super-villain Gray Goblin (real name: Gabriel Stacy) a very rebellious 'son-of-perdition' who represents all the bravado of the modern American city. Where is America heading, and how will future historians regard 'capitalism-ambition' in American culture/history?"
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{CAPTAIN AHAB & GRAY GOBLIN}
