- Sep 22, 2013
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This is a consumerism vignette inspired by Mr. Baseball and the Kansas City Royals.
Cheers,
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Americans loved baseball, and they were fascinated by the new age successes of the Kansas City Royals who boasted either terrific talents such as Bo Jackson who never quite made it to the level of World Series champion or great teamwork coordination with no real stars resulting in a relieving World Series victory. American youngsters were busy feeling euphoric purchasing Royals baseball cards of all kind, showing off their culture-ornamental true-blue colors of the Royals uniforms. 'Royal Blue' became a rallying-cry for any American youngster looking to use
sports memorabilia fanfare intrigue to basically market the psychological 'thrill' of collecting 'images' of professional sports uniforms. It was all very much capitalism (but fun!).
Special collections of Royals cards highlighted the fanfare surrounding the MLB in media and also the public interest in seeing craftsmanship and artisanship regarding professional sports ornaments/feathers. The Royals had become the new Harlem Globetrotters, offering American sports fans and youngsters a colored-route to teamwork spirit chatter. While the Globetrotters were only entertainers, 'Royal Blue' became a fun way to talk about sports-media creativity in a time when mass consumerism just might make memorabilia and mercantilism of any kind simply seem superficial and boring!
A young Ivy League student (Yale University) named Ethan decided he would collect Kansas City Royals cards and only(!) Royals cards. Ethan collected over 5,000 Royals cards in just 5 years, and by the time he graduated from Yale, he was a 'Royal Blue' guru. Ethan decided to showcase his entire collection on eBay which he valued and listed as a $10K collection. One sports-memorabilia merchant saw Ethan's collection and realized that eBay sellers were at liberty in modern times to make treasures out of everyday culture-symbolic 'collections.' Capitalism was officially theatrical!
A CNN journalist called this entire consumerism phenomenon a wondrous example of teamwork-coordinated aesthetics. Everything was teamwork, business, sports leagues, media groups, socialism debate unions, TrumpUSA cheerleaders, Facebook knights, etc., etc. Suddenly 'Royal Blue' chic made capitalism and consumerism something of a circus-like candy-eating thrill. The only question was which Hollywood (USA) film-maker would pick up on this 'pedestrian ravenousness' and make a representative culture-film for Americans for Christmas and who would star in such a film (perhaps director Robert Redford and actor Cary Elwes?).
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Cheers,
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Americans loved baseball, and they were fascinated by the new age successes of the Kansas City Royals who boasted either terrific talents such as Bo Jackson who never quite made it to the level of World Series champion or great teamwork coordination with no real stars resulting in a relieving World Series victory. American youngsters were busy feeling euphoric purchasing Royals baseball cards of all kind, showing off their culture-ornamental true-blue colors of the Royals uniforms. 'Royal Blue' became a rallying-cry for any American youngster looking to use
sports memorabilia fanfare intrigue to basically market the psychological 'thrill' of collecting 'images' of professional sports uniforms. It was all very much capitalism (but fun!).
Special collections of Royals cards highlighted the fanfare surrounding the MLB in media and also the public interest in seeing craftsmanship and artisanship regarding professional sports ornaments/feathers. The Royals had become the new Harlem Globetrotters, offering American sports fans and youngsters a colored-route to teamwork spirit chatter. While the Globetrotters were only entertainers, 'Royal Blue' became a fun way to talk about sports-media creativity in a time when mass consumerism just might make memorabilia and mercantilism of any kind simply seem superficial and boring!
A young Ivy League student (Yale University) named Ethan decided he would collect Kansas City Royals cards and only(!) Royals cards. Ethan collected over 5,000 Royals cards in just 5 years, and by the time he graduated from Yale, he was a 'Royal Blue' guru. Ethan decided to showcase his entire collection on eBay which he valued and listed as a $10K collection. One sports-memorabilia merchant saw Ethan's collection and realized that eBay sellers were at liberty in modern times to make treasures out of everyday culture-symbolic 'collections.' Capitalism was officially theatrical!
A CNN journalist called this entire consumerism phenomenon a wondrous example of teamwork-coordinated aesthetics. Everything was teamwork, business, sports leagues, media groups, socialism debate unions, TrumpUSA cheerleaders, Facebook knights, etc., etc. Suddenly 'Royal Blue' chic made capitalism and consumerism something of a circus-like candy-eating thrill. The only question was which Hollywood (USA) film-maker would pick up on this 'pedestrian ravenousness' and make a representative culture-film for Americans for Christmas and who would star in such a film (perhaps director Robert Redford and actor Cary Elwes?).
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