A Consumerism Parable

Abishai100

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This is a 'TrumpUSA' idealistic-noir crime-story 'cartoon,' which I think reflects both the pedestrian idealism and the social 'paranoia' surrounding our new 'philosophical-consumerism couture' society (e.g., Facebook, Wall Street, Burger King, etc., etc.).

What do you think?



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A young Japanese woman decided to walk around on Halloween Eve trick-or-treating near her American home in Arizona. Her name was Naho and she dressed as an old-world Japanese maiden with a nice handkerchief (which her grandmother gave her as a family heirloom). Naho's purpose was to celebrate the masquerading festivities of Halloween by combining it with a special 'nod' to old-world culture aesthetics. As Naho trick-or-treated happily and received multiple favorable comments about her authentic Japanese 'costume,' she remarked how special and magical Halloween had become in America! Naho felt so patriotic about 'pedestrian confetti.'

Suddenly, Naho noticed a very strange man running towards her. The man (who was probably about 30 some years old and rather well-built) was in a Leatherface (the fictional terrifying chainsaw-wielding cannibal from the eerie Texas Chainsaw Massacre horror-film franchise) costume. The man ('Leatherface') was running right towards Naho (in a suit-and-tie and skin-type mask and carrying a chainsaw, just like from the 1974 American horror-film)! Naho did not know what to do and assumed the man was trying to pay Naho an 'unusual' compliment in his authentic 'American-couture' horror-film costume (since Naho was in an authentic old-world Japanese 'costume'). However, Naho felt an eerie wind of goosebumps and did not want to wait.

As the man ('Leatherface') continued to run towards Naho, Naho decided to reach into her purse and grab her can of corrosive mace-spray, and as the man was just about right in front of her, Naho held up her mace-spray can (which had a decent spray-reach length) and sprayed it right into the man's eyes. The mace went through the eye-holes of the man's mask, and the man fell down screaming (and his buzzing-chainsaw which turned out to be real fell on his own leg, gashing it deeply!). Naho ran as fast as she could and when she got home she locked her door and called the police. When the cops arrived at Naho's house, they complimented her on her Japanese Halloween costume (which she was still wearing), and Naho explained to her the story of the 'Leatherface'-man who was gashed by his own chainsaw and was lying on the ground bleeding.

The cops arrested the maniac man who was indeed trying to terrify people in a Leatherface-costume and he was charged with attempted murder and assault (though he did not hurt anyone --- Naho was to be his first victim!). As the cops carried 'Leatherface' off to jail, the arresting officer noticed the maniac had a handkerchief in his suit-pocket and asked him where the lunatic received such a nice handkerchief, and 'Leatherface' told the cop in an eerie mischievous voice, "It belongs to the woman who was to be my first victim tonight." The cop realized this 'copycat-criminal' was to be first in a series of new age crimed catalyzed by a pedestrian obsession with 'convenience-consumerism' aesthetics related 'traffic-terrorism' (e.g., Helter-Skelter) but felt assured by the notion that President Donald Trump would offer Americans real 'shopping-psychiatry idealism'!

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