Abishai100
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This is a modernism-idealism tale inspired by the films Captain America: The First Avenger and Ruthless People.
Signing off,
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Steve Rogers was trained by the U.S. Army and 'enhanced' by American scientists to be a 'perfect soldier' of duty, but Rogers often questioned the sanctity of governmental protocols and the wisdom of the CIA (e.g., neglecting problems in Belfast). Rogers decided to continue to serve the American people but donned his personalized 'crusader-costume' and called himself 'Captain America' (he even had a fancy glazed giant shield). Captain America wanted everyday people to feel generally excited about global values, especially democracy.
The world was changing, and geopolitical IQ meant a focus on networking-related risk-assessment, and that translated to economics-based politics (e.g., European Union, NATO, Wall Street, World Bank, etc.). The real 'evil' was now the profiteer, and the new 'terrorist' was the network-destabilizing Internet-hacker. Everyone was concerned about 'grid integrity,' so American artists/writers started glorifying the misfortune-paranoia horror-film ghoul/avatar 'Lubdan' (a mischievous Ireland-originating Leprechaun/imp who punished anyone who stole his 'magical pot of gold').
Meanwhile, immigration 'etiquette' was changing too, so voters in democratic nations were continually curious about community values in a commerce-gauged dynamic world. Would Al Jazeera TV (Arabia) be accepted in the West? Would European Internet mail-order-bride services be managed professionally by the INS in the USA? Feminists began hyping the teen-fantasy femme-fatale 'underworld villainess' named 'Scorpia' (a beautiful woman shaped like a scorpion and possessing terrible venom and hence symbolizing paranoia-incarnate). Scorpia became a popular Halloween costume among teenage girls in America, but social ripples made the avatar much more 'incendiary.'
So the stage was set for Captain America to do his expected 'heroic work.' The hero had to deal with Lubdan (an agent of contract-management mistrust and risk-speculation dangers and of course profiteerism and gambling) as well as Scorpia (an 'art ministress' of the fear of disintegrating community values and social idealism towards modern communication/friendship in a developing multicultural international 'society'). Captain America accurately concluded that Lubdan signified all of the 'shadows' of the modern mind plagued by thoughts of 'impudent courage' and 'pseudo-heretical Wall Street gambling-based politics; and Scoripa signified all of the humanism-concerns regarding social etiquette in this new multicultural 'Facebook-Earth' which glorified fashion ahead of psychiatry!
Captain America realized that there were two distinct factions in the world --- one that analyzed the metaphysical symbolism of 'Lubdan'; and the other that assessed the social significance of the seductive 'Scorpia.' Captain America wanted to devise a way to make everyone happy while also dealing with the very real problem that Lubdan and Scorpia created for their respective 'factions.' The Lubdan 'team' was called the Capital Guard, while the Scorpia 'team' was called the Exorcist Mall. The Capital Guard was comprised mostly of politicians, while the Exorcist Mall was comprised mostly of philosophers and poets. The Capital Guard studied the dangers of speculating on risk in our commercial world, while the Exorcist Mall studied the weight of social norms in our multicultural cauldron.
Captain America oversaw the building of a giant casino-resort at a U.S. army-base in Jerusalem to help the Capital Guard (and frustrate the dystopian influence of Lubdan!), and then he oversaw the construction of community faith-centers in economically-challenged areas of symbolic cultural diversity (e.g., Tijuana, Harlem, Johannesburg) to help the Exorcist Mall (and address the multiculturalism cynicism presented by mobility-anxiety avatars such as Scorpia!). Captain America realized he was the official 'Big-Brother' who oversaw all the modernism idealism of the goings-on of new age 'networking,' so every summer, he spent one week camping with members of the Capital Guard, and then one week painting with members of the Exorcist Mall. Captain America realized that creating a 'networking balancing act' in this 'new age' simply required strength and creativity. It was a fine ballet...
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Signing off,
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Steve Rogers was trained by the U.S. Army and 'enhanced' by American scientists to be a 'perfect soldier' of duty, but Rogers often questioned the sanctity of governmental protocols and the wisdom of the CIA (e.g., neglecting problems in Belfast). Rogers decided to continue to serve the American people but donned his personalized 'crusader-costume' and called himself 'Captain America' (he even had a fancy glazed giant shield). Captain America wanted everyday people to feel generally excited about global values, especially democracy.
The world was changing, and geopolitical IQ meant a focus on networking-related risk-assessment, and that translated to economics-based politics (e.g., European Union, NATO, Wall Street, World Bank, etc.). The real 'evil' was now the profiteer, and the new 'terrorist' was the network-destabilizing Internet-hacker. Everyone was concerned about 'grid integrity,' so American artists/writers started glorifying the misfortune-paranoia horror-film ghoul/avatar 'Lubdan' (a mischievous Ireland-originating Leprechaun/imp who punished anyone who stole his 'magical pot of gold').
Meanwhile, immigration 'etiquette' was changing too, so voters in democratic nations were continually curious about community values in a commerce-gauged dynamic world. Would Al Jazeera TV (Arabia) be accepted in the West? Would European Internet mail-order-bride services be managed professionally by the INS in the USA? Feminists began hyping the teen-fantasy femme-fatale 'underworld villainess' named 'Scorpia' (a beautiful woman shaped like a scorpion and possessing terrible venom and hence symbolizing paranoia-incarnate). Scorpia became a popular Halloween costume among teenage girls in America, but social ripples made the avatar much more 'incendiary.'
So the stage was set for Captain America to do his expected 'heroic work.' The hero had to deal with Lubdan (an agent of contract-management mistrust and risk-speculation dangers and of course profiteerism and gambling) as well as Scorpia (an 'art ministress' of the fear of disintegrating community values and social idealism towards modern communication/friendship in a developing multicultural international 'society'). Captain America accurately concluded that Lubdan signified all of the 'shadows' of the modern mind plagued by thoughts of 'impudent courage' and 'pseudo-heretical Wall Street gambling-based politics; and Scoripa signified all of the humanism-concerns regarding social etiquette in this new multicultural 'Facebook-Earth' which glorified fashion ahead of psychiatry!
Captain America realized that there were two distinct factions in the world --- one that analyzed the metaphysical symbolism of 'Lubdan'; and the other that assessed the social significance of the seductive 'Scorpia.' Captain America wanted to devise a way to make everyone happy while also dealing with the very real problem that Lubdan and Scorpia created for their respective 'factions.' The Lubdan 'team' was called the Capital Guard, while the Scorpia 'team' was called the Exorcist Mall. The Capital Guard was comprised mostly of politicians, while the Exorcist Mall was comprised mostly of philosophers and poets. The Capital Guard studied the dangers of speculating on risk in our commercial world, while the Exorcist Mall studied the weight of social norms in our multicultural cauldron.
Captain America oversaw the building of a giant casino-resort at a U.S. army-base in Jerusalem to help the Capital Guard (and frustrate the dystopian influence of Lubdan!), and then he oversaw the construction of community faith-centers in economically-challenged areas of symbolic cultural diversity (e.g., Tijuana, Harlem, Johannesburg) to help the Exorcist Mall (and address the multiculturalism cynicism presented by mobility-anxiety avatars such as Scorpia!). Captain America realized he was the official 'Big-Brother' who oversaw all the modernism idealism of the goings-on of new age 'networking,' so every summer, he spent one week camping with members of the Capital Guard, and then one week painting with members of the Exorcist Mall. Captain America realized that creating a 'networking balancing act' in this 'new age' simply required strength and creativity. It was a fine ballet...
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