Abishai100
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This is a modernism parable inspired by the film WarGames.
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The duo-adventure video-game Contra (set in Nicaragua) tells the 'story' of two valiant American paramilitary soldiers who go on a mission to dismantle a jungle-dominion. Contra becomes so popular that kids across America marvel and cheer its sheer nod to modern urbanization-consciousness and tales such as Upton Sinclair's The Jungle. The mass hysteria grows, and American celebrity Tom Cruise is drawn to it and reveals that he is a media-network 'superhero' named Spider-Man and even shows up on a TV talk-show dressed in costume. Video games are obviously all the rage...
When the press ask Cruise why he's so interested in video game culture all of a sudden, he humbly explains he merely follows the dominant trends in modern media and wants to keep pace with its changing 'chic.' Video games begin to dominate and take over in priority-rank and social demand position in relation to other consumer markets such as billiards-table sales and tabletop board-games. The popular iconic American real-estate fantasy-game Monopoly (Parker Brothers) even becomes a popular app-game on the iPhone. America has changed, and Tom Cruise (aka, 'Spider-Man') wants to remain a public 'figurehead' of media-trend cheerleading. He is the real Big Brother.
Spider-Man needs help, so another crusader joins with him --- American celebrity Tom Hanks(!) --- and he becomes the superhero called Iceman. Iceman has an ice-covered bulletproof 'suit' comprised of an aqueous-nitrogen material developed at the prestigious and under-valued Salk Institute in southern California. Hanks (aka, 'Iceman') helps Cruise (aka, 'Spder-Man') sell American optimism to the consumer market by highlighting the 'imaginarium value' of new age 'totems' such as the Apple iMac, the Sony Playstation, the Google Watch, and Facebook. So much is digital that Iceman declares himself to be the 'classicist philosopher' of Utopian-age rhetorics (e.g., Acropolis of Ancient Greece).
Spider-Man realizes Iceman's deeds have effectively breathed new creative energies into the volatile media-tech-toy modern global consumer market. Spider-Man believes the Samsung flat-screen LED high-definition (HD) TV is the modern equivalent to yesteryear's iconic homeware tools/toys such as the typewriter and the Indian 'boti' (a basic blade-and-board item used to cut foods on the floor with hand-and-foot). Spider-Man even declares that the Samsung HDTV (sold widely in Best Buy electronics stores across the USA) should be considered the 'metaphysical rival' of the handy-dandy (and intricacy-deepened) Indian boti. One could become hypnotized/obsessed about watching television and likewise take the care required with the boti for granted and accidentally cut their feet while using the item. Spider-Man knew consumerism was much more maddening than mankind mused.
Fortunately, the "Spider-Man and Iceman 'crusade'" effectively hoisted the consumer tools (iconic of modern homeware-culture) such as the Black & Decker power-drill, the Ninja kitchen-blender, and the Panasonic microwave to the level of 'metaphysical Machiavellianism.' Everyone was raving about Best Buy, Home Depot, Crate & Barrel, Boscov's, and other retail stores that carried these symbolic 'modernism toys,' which certainly, archaeologists of the future would look back upon and marvel as our era's collective (and unified!) nod to the dynamic (and maddening) forces of mercantilism The new gods would be 'media diplomats' (such as Tom Cruise, Tom Hanks, and Dinesh D'Souza).
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Signing off,
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The duo-adventure video-game Contra (set in Nicaragua) tells the 'story' of two valiant American paramilitary soldiers who go on a mission to dismantle a jungle-dominion. Contra becomes so popular that kids across America marvel and cheer its sheer nod to modern urbanization-consciousness and tales such as Upton Sinclair's The Jungle. The mass hysteria grows, and American celebrity Tom Cruise is drawn to it and reveals that he is a media-network 'superhero' named Spider-Man and even shows up on a TV talk-show dressed in costume. Video games are obviously all the rage...
When the press ask Cruise why he's so interested in video game culture all of a sudden, he humbly explains he merely follows the dominant trends in modern media and wants to keep pace with its changing 'chic.' Video games begin to dominate and take over in priority-rank and social demand position in relation to other consumer markets such as billiards-table sales and tabletop board-games. The popular iconic American real-estate fantasy-game Monopoly (Parker Brothers) even becomes a popular app-game on the iPhone. America has changed, and Tom Cruise (aka, 'Spider-Man') wants to remain a public 'figurehead' of media-trend cheerleading. He is the real Big Brother.
Spider-Man needs help, so another crusader joins with him --- American celebrity Tom Hanks(!) --- and he becomes the superhero called Iceman. Iceman has an ice-covered bulletproof 'suit' comprised of an aqueous-nitrogen material developed at the prestigious and under-valued Salk Institute in southern California. Hanks (aka, 'Iceman') helps Cruise (aka, 'Spder-Man') sell American optimism to the consumer market by highlighting the 'imaginarium value' of new age 'totems' such as the Apple iMac, the Sony Playstation, the Google Watch, and Facebook. So much is digital that Iceman declares himself to be the 'classicist philosopher' of Utopian-age rhetorics (e.g., Acropolis of Ancient Greece).
Spider-Man realizes Iceman's deeds have effectively breathed new creative energies into the volatile media-tech-toy modern global consumer market. Spider-Man believes the Samsung flat-screen LED high-definition (HD) TV is the modern equivalent to yesteryear's iconic homeware tools/toys such as the typewriter and the Indian 'boti' (a basic blade-and-board item used to cut foods on the floor with hand-and-foot). Spider-Man even declares that the Samsung HDTV (sold widely in Best Buy electronics stores across the USA) should be considered the 'metaphysical rival' of the handy-dandy (and intricacy-deepened) Indian boti. One could become hypnotized/obsessed about watching television and likewise take the care required with the boti for granted and accidentally cut their feet while using the item. Spider-Man knew consumerism was much more maddening than mankind mused.
Fortunately, the "Spider-Man and Iceman 'crusade'" effectively hoisted the consumer tools (iconic of modern homeware-culture) such as the Black & Decker power-drill, the Ninja kitchen-blender, and the Panasonic microwave to the level of 'metaphysical Machiavellianism.' Everyone was raving about Best Buy, Home Depot, Crate & Barrel, Boscov's, and other retail stores that carried these symbolic 'modernism toys,' which certainly, archaeologists of the future would look back upon and marvel as our era's collective (and unified!) nod to the dynamic (and maddening) forces of mercantilism The new gods would be 'media diplomats' (such as Tom Cruise, Tom Hanks, and Dinesh D'Souza).
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