Abishai100
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How will commerce-consciousness (i.e., 'TrumpUSA') reorient our storytelling?
This capitalism-yarn was inspired by the fortune-conscience film Ruthless People.
Signing off,
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The Piper was paid to rid the precious town of Hamelin of its overwhelming rodent-infestation problem. The Piper would play a strange and melodic (haunting) tune on his flute and the rats would follow him, so he played his flute, and the rats followed him to their doom. The town of Hamelin was free, and the Piper was proud of his accomplishment. However, when the Hamelin mayor shorted the Piper on his agreed-upon contract-fee, the Piper became furious and the next day, he used his haunting flute-melody to lure all the children out of Hamelin and disappeared with them!
Years later, a beautiful but calculating witch named Ezelda came to Hamelin and noticed that the people were very very sad. The Hamelin mayor explained to Ezelda that Hamelin was once very happy and normal until the Piper kidnapped all the children because of a failed contract regarding an extermination-job fee. Ezelda realized that the Piper had cursed the poor little town, so she decided to help the people of Hamelin by weaving a special magic shadow-puppet feat in which the spirits of the air seemed like dancing little children made of shadows in the moonlight. Hamelin was normal again!
America had become very interested in comic books, fantasy-stories, and wondrous characters and avatars, and one New Yorker cartoonist named Thomas Nasp wanted to use the story of the Piper of Hamelin and the Witch Ezelda to construct a capitalism-critique. Nasp implied that the lessons learned from the cultural 'legend' of the Piper and Ezelda awakened humanity to the reality that contracts about community fortunes stirred dialogue about the need for the World Bank. Nasp won the Nobel Prize, and President Trump called him the 'new Rodin.'
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This capitalism-yarn was inspired by the fortune-conscience film Ruthless People.
Signing off,
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The Piper was paid to rid the precious town of Hamelin of its overwhelming rodent-infestation problem. The Piper would play a strange and melodic (haunting) tune on his flute and the rats would follow him, so he played his flute, and the rats followed him to their doom. The town of Hamelin was free, and the Piper was proud of his accomplishment. However, when the Hamelin mayor shorted the Piper on his agreed-upon contract-fee, the Piper became furious and the next day, he used his haunting flute-melody to lure all the children out of Hamelin and disappeared with them!
Years later, a beautiful but calculating witch named Ezelda came to Hamelin and noticed that the people were very very sad. The Hamelin mayor explained to Ezelda that Hamelin was once very happy and normal until the Piper kidnapped all the children because of a failed contract regarding an extermination-job fee. Ezelda realized that the Piper had cursed the poor little town, so she decided to help the people of Hamelin by weaving a special magic shadow-puppet feat in which the spirits of the air seemed like dancing little children made of shadows in the moonlight. Hamelin was normal again!
America had become very interested in comic books, fantasy-stories, and wondrous characters and avatars, and one New Yorker cartoonist named Thomas Nasp wanted to use the story of the Piper of Hamelin and the Witch Ezelda to construct a capitalism-critique. Nasp implied that the lessons learned from the cultural 'legend' of the Piper and Ezelda awakened humanity to the reality that contracts about community fortunes stirred dialogue about the need for the World Bank. Nasp won the Nobel Prize, and President Trump called him the 'new Rodin.'
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