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This is a commerce-culture vignette inspired by Pret-a-Porter.
Cheers (signing off),
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"Harper's Bazaar celebrated the offerings of various aesthetics-based companies and social perspectives on trends and vanities and commerce in general and consumerism in specific. It was as iconic to the adult world as Highlights Magazine for Children was to the child-world. People who read Bazaar wanted a 'glimpse' of the exposure to worldwide culture/fashion that came purely through commerce."
"You might find a special feature about born-again Christian women in India celebrating the traditional customs and fashions of India by proudly presenting their authentic Indian saree-dress, which is the Indian version of the Greek toga. A Bazaar article such as that would perhaps present four different stories of four very different born-again Christian women living in India and balancing Western religion with Eastern culture/society."
"A woman, say, named Anjali, wearing a bright-green saree might talk about the social awkwardness of having to 'advertise' her Christian faith in an Indian society 'uncomfortable' breaking norms of Hindu caste to 'accept' the 'revolutionary' notions of Jesus Christ. Anjali might claim her bright-green saree at least makes her 'cheerful' about these everyday 'spirit-contradictions' of living in India as a born-again Christian woman. You start to admire Anjali's colorful bright-green saree and the Bazaar article which presents her in it."
"Another woman named Sophia living in Gujrat (India) and showcasing her brilliant-blue saree wants to tell you about the challenges of marketing Christianity in a land where hospitality-customs are very Hinduism-based. There're even portraits of the Hindu goddess Kali in major tourism-friendly hotels in India. Sophia wonders if her 'normal Christian beliefs' make her an 'ironic odd rebel' living in India and 'leaving behind' the traditional views of Hindu caste sanctimoniousness. Sophia is also concerned her mother does not like Christian gifts. That's why Sophia at least can 'connect' to her mother by proudly wearing this handsome brilliant-blue saree."
"Finally, we arrive at Elke, a Dutch woman who's family has been living in India for 4 generations. Elke is wearing a bright-white saree and has chosen to become a born-again Christian after graduating from an Indian university. Elke committed a crime while in school, a murder of a teacher who was sexually harassing her. Now, her Christian faith helps her repent and make amends with God for her 'unnatural wrath.' Elke is on her way to a center from the criminally-insane, but she insists on the right to continue to wear her bright-white authentic-Indian saree at the insane-asylum, claiming that fashion-liberties may be a warranted extension of the freedom of religion. Is Elke right? One thing we do know from this intriguing hypothetical Bazaar fashion/lifestyle article is that Elke is a 'diplomat' of pluralism-intrigue in the modern geopolitically-energized world."
"So let's say you take the testimonies of these four women in their iconically-colored smart Indian saree-dress and put them onto a tape. You read aloud the testimonies published in the Bazaar article and voice-record the readings onto a vintage 1980s compact audio cassette and then place it in a symbolic 20th-Century/21st-Century 'time-capsule' for future anthropologists to discover and analyze/evaluate. This tape is a potential 'Christianity treasure-chest' for anthropologists to study and therefore 'catalog' this modern era of pluralism traffic and commerce."
TRUMP IV: Did you read about the new Anthropology discovery?
CARTER: Yes, apparently a 'Bazaar time-capsule' about fashion/religion was found.
TRUMP IV: It was from the 21st Century, when Donald Trump I was the President.
CARTER: Your ancestor!
TRUMP IV: Yes, I'm the 4th Trump to be elected U.S. President. Donald I was the first.
CARTER: That's when the time-capsule was cataloged?
TRUMP IV: Yes!
CARTER: The anthropologist was John Freeman, a graduate of Yale University.
TRUMP IV: It's an intriguing discovery for the field of Anthropology, Carter.
CARTER: Yes, it is.
TRUMP IV: The 21st Century was a 'great wake' in commerce/consumerism.
CARTER: It was the era that paved the way for the Great Fashion Fair (in Paris).
TRUMP IV: Donald I was the President of the United States then...
CARTER: It was a time of great terrorist threats (e.g., ISIS, Cobra, the IRA, etc.).
TRUMP IV: Every highway has a 'ghost-story.'
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Cheers (signing off),
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"Harper's Bazaar celebrated the offerings of various aesthetics-based companies and social perspectives on trends and vanities and commerce in general and consumerism in specific. It was as iconic to the adult world as Highlights Magazine for Children was to the child-world. People who read Bazaar wanted a 'glimpse' of the exposure to worldwide culture/fashion that came purely through commerce."
"You might find a special feature about born-again Christian women in India celebrating the traditional customs and fashions of India by proudly presenting their authentic Indian saree-dress, which is the Indian version of the Greek toga. A Bazaar article such as that would perhaps present four different stories of four very different born-again Christian women living in India and balancing Western religion with Eastern culture/society."
"A woman, say, named Anjali, wearing a bright-green saree might talk about the social awkwardness of having to 'advertise' her Christian faith in an Indian society 'uncomfortable' breaking norms of Hindu caste to 'accept' the 'revolutionary' notions of Jesus Christ. Anjali might claim her bright-green saree at least makes her 'cheerful' about these everyday 'spirit-contradictions' of living in India as a born-again Christian woman. You start to admire Anjali's colorful bright-green saree and the Bazaar article which presents her in it."
"Another woman named Sophia living in Gujrat (India) and showcasing her brilliant-blue saree wants to tell you about the challenges of marketing Christianity in a land where hospitality-customs are very Hinduism-based. There're even portraits of the Hindu goddess Kali in major tourism-friendly hotels in India. Sophia wonders if her 'normal Christian beliefs' make her an 'ironic odd rebel' living in India and 'leaving behind' the traditional views of Hindu caste sanctimoniousness. Sophia is also concerned her mother does not like Christian gifts. That's why Sophia at least can 'connect' to her mother by proudly wearing this handsome brilliant-blue saree."
"Finally, we arrive at Elke, a Dutch woman who's family has been living in India for 4 generations. Elke is wearing a bright-white saree and has chosen to become a born-again Christian after graduating from an Indian university. Elke committed a crime while in school, a murder of a teacher who was sexually harassing her. Now, her Christian faith helps her repent and make amends with God for her 'unnatural wrath.' Elke is on her way to a center from the criminally-insane, but she insists on the right to continue to wear her bright-white authentic-Indian saree at the insane-asylum, claiming that fashion-liberties may be a warranted extension of the freedom of religion. Is Elke right? One thing we do know from this intriguing hypothetical Bazaar fashion/lifestyle article is that Elke is a 'diplomat' of pluralism-intrigue in the modern geopolitically-energized world."
"So let's say you take the testimonies of these four women in their iconically-colored smart Indian saree-dress and put them onto a tape. You read aloud the testimonies published in the Bazaar article and voice-record the readings onto a vintage 1980s compact audio cassette and then place it in a symbolic 20th-Century/21st-Century 'time-capsule' for future anthropologists to discover and analyze/evaluate. This tape is a potential 'Christianity treasure-chest' for anthropologists to study and therefore 'catalog' this modern era of pluralism traffic and commerce."
TRUMP IV: Did you read about the new Anthropology discovery?
CARTER: Yes, apparently a 'Bazaar time-capsule' about fashion/religion was found.
TRUMP IV: It was from the 21st Century, when Donald Trump I was the President.
CARTER: Your ancestor!
TRUMP IV: Yes, I'm the 4th Trump to be elected U.S. President. Donald I was the first.
CARTER: That's when the time-capsule was cataloged?
TRUMP IV: Yes!
CARTER: The anthropologist was John Freeman, a graduate of Yale University.
TRUMP IV: It's an intriguing discovery for the field of Anthropology, Carter.
CARTER: Yes, it is.
TRUMP IV: The 21st Century was a 'great wake' in commerce/consumerism.
CARTER: It was the era that paved the way for the Great Fashion Fair (in Paris).
TRUMP IV: Donald I was the President of the United States then...
CARTER: It was a time of great terrorist threats (e.g., ISIS, Cobra, the IRA, etc.).
TRUMP IV: Every highway has a 'ghost-story.'
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