Abishai100
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Capitalism makes me worry about mindless traffic.
This yarn was inspired by K-PAX.
Signing off,
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A spiritual magician named Mandrake was concerned that the modern world was filled with vain conveniences thanks to consumerism culture (e.g., eTrade, eBay, Facebook, Wal-Mart, etc., etc.). This sort of convenience would create sloth and gluttony and even avarice, so Mandrake set out to present ideas about philosophical passion and scientific imagination. He told consumers to entertain daily fitness daydreams such as imagining holograms of angels at the ATM or at a McDonald's drive-thru (to better embrace the metaphysics behind an otherwise 'crude capitalism').
America was the hostel for capitalism, and Wall Street stockbrokers were marching to the beat of a new age global interest in commerce based etiquette/customs. Profits were the new ledger of achievement, replacing the aesthetics of the Renaissance and the gaudy governance idealism of the pre-WWII era. Hollywood(USA) was therefore making films like Casino, Money Monster, and Toy Story. Everything was about the idea of trade.
American tourists meanwhile indulged their jaded spirits with exotic travels to Europe, finding niches of colourful escapism to forget about the doldrum of predictable consumerism traffic (i.e., Wall Street). This spiritual backlash against capitalism consciousness created a piracy-omen, since everyday people were suddenly very sensitive about consumption and monopolies. The consumer basically craved a form of identity-dissection entertainment (e.g., Woody Allen's consumerism-culture film Celebrity).
American imagineers were developing synthetic models of mass traffic and envisioned elaborate 'RoboWorlds' comprised of automated but intelligent robotic creatures (robots) that reflected this modern age social fascination with regular behaviors. These imagined 'RoboWorlds' represented a scientific and artistic fear of mindless commerce-based traffic (e.g., NATO, European Union, World Bank). Mandrake wanted to defy this 'RoboWorld' aesthetic with holograms of free-will and temperance (e.g., images of Mother Nature in consumer brands/products such as Green Giant canned vegetables).
Alien: Covenant was the chic new American sci-fi horror-film, and it presented the story of human space-explorers encountering a terrifying intelligent predatory alien creature known as the 'Xenomorph' which exhibited incredible agility, speed, adaptation skills, and venomous malice. The Xenomorph was the new Godzilla, and it reminded movie-audiences of this new age fear of survivalism monstrosities and why survival was linked to capitalism (e.g., NATO, Social Security, etc.).
America was on the brink of great intellectual change, and Mandrake the Magician wanted to be there to create helpful images and imaginations of capitalism temperance (to counter this new age obsession with profits and commerce and traffic). Mandrake told people in America about the inherent value of prudence-themed stories/movies such as The Golden Arm, Coming to America, WarGames, and Casey at the Bat. Would America (and the modern world) endure this Mechanical Tribulation?
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This yarn was inspired by K-PAX.
Signing off,
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A spiritual magician named Mandrake was concerned that the modern world was filled with vain conveniences thanks to consumerism culture (e.g., eTrade, eBay, Facebook, Wal-Mart, etc., etc.). This sort of convenience would create sloth and gluttony and even avarice, so Mandrake set out to present ideas about philosophical passion and scientific imagination. He told consumers to entertain daily fitness daydreams such as imagining holograms of angels at the ATM or at a McDonald's drive-thru (to better embrace the metaphysics behind an otherwise 'crude capitalism').
America was the hostel for capitalism, and Wall Street stockbrokers were marching to the beat of a new age global interest in commerce based etiquette/customs. Profits were the new ledger of achievement, replacing the aesthetics of the Renaissance and the gaudy governance idealism of the pre-WWII era. Hollywood(USA) was therefore making films like Casino, Money Monster, and Toy Story. Everything was about the idea of trade.
American tourists meanwhile indulged their jaded spirits with exotic travels to Europe, finding niches of colourful escapism to forget about the doldrum of predictable consumerism traffic (i.e., Wall Street). This spiritual backlash against capitalism consciousness created a piracy-omen, since everyday people were suddenly very sensitive about consumption and monopolies. The consumer basically craved a form of identity-dissection entertainment (e.g., Woody Allen's consumerism-culture film Celebrity).
American imagineers were developing synthetic models of mass traffic and envisioned elaborate 'RoboWorlds' comprised of automated but intelligent robotic creatures (robots) that reflected this modern age social fascination with regular behaviors. These imagined 'RoboWorlds' represented a scientific and artistic fear of mindless commerce-based traffic (e.g., NATO, European Union, World Bank). Mandrake wanted to defy this 'RoboWorld' aesthetic with holograms of free-will and temperance (e.g., images of Mother Nature in consumer brands/products such as Green Giant canned vegetables).
Alien: Covenant was the chic new American sci-fi horror-film, and it presented the story of human space-explorers encountering a terrifying intelligent predatory alien creature known as the 'Xenomorph' which exhibited incredible agility, speed, adaptation skills, and venomous malice. The Xenomorph was the new Godzilla, and it reminded movie-audiences of this new age fear of survivalism monstrosities and why survival was linked to capitalism (e.g., NATO, Social Security, etc.).
America was on the brink of great intellectual change, and Mandrake the Magician wanted to be there to create helpful images and imaginations of capitalism temperance (to counter this new age obsession with profits and commerce and traffic). Mandrake told people in America about the inherent value of prudence-themed stories/movies such as The Golden Arm, Coming to America, WarGames, and Casey at the Bat. Would America (and the modern world) endure this Mechanical Tribulation?
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