- Sep 22, 2013
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Do stories about Earth's natural beauty and eco-splendors inspire creative-thinking and spiritual inspiration or remind us of the daily paranoia of traffic and congestion-related anti-social instincts in a post-industrialized world of eco-pollution (perhaps symbolic of our consumerism and commerce-obsessive 'TrumpUSA')?
Here's a short-story I wrote inspired by Edward Abbey's The Monkey Wrench Gang.
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Mandrake looked like a human but was from a faraway planet and was adept as using magic, fantasy, and the imagination to create illusions of safety. Mandrake believed if human beings could not create real securities on Earth, they could use tricks and ingenuity to 'fabricate' the feeling of safety and security. That's why Mandrake advocated the sale of war-combat video games and the circulation of horror-films which presented ideas/images of terrible and dangerous scenarios with ominous adversaries and ugly monsters which helped people feel a catharsis over the anxiety of helplessness in real-life troubles (e.g., 9/11).
Mandrake decided to create a fantastic Internet blog about the inspiration created by fireflies on Earth. He wrote that women walking home late at night after work alone might feel the cold breeze of alienation and insecurity on streets and walkways (in places like Virginia Beach, Miami, San Diego, and Austin) where there was little light (e.g., no street-lamps) and few patrolling policemen. In these circumstances, Mandrake wrote that the appearance of fireflies (with their simple beautiful bioluminescence) would make these women feel like God was watching over them.
Unfortunately, Mandrake's blog was censored, since it condoned the advocacy of radical eco-terrorism related ideas that Earth's natural wonders must be protected at all costs (even by fanatics), since everyone worried about the metaphysical devastation created by neglectful attitudes towards nature's everyday splendors. Mandrake realized the censoring of his blog was not entirely insane, since two months later, he read the news of a strange eco-terrorist in Gotham City named Poison Ivy (a botanist-turned-radical) was capturing fireflies and leaving them in jars placed outside of offices for people to find and open and discover an explosive device attached!
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Here's a short-story I wrote inspired by Edward Abbey's The Monkey Wrench Gang.
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Mandrake looked like a human but was from a faraway planet and was adept as using magic, fantasy, and the imagination to create illusions of safety. Mandrake believed if human beings could not create real securities on Earth, they could use tricks and ingenuity to 'fabricate' the feeling of safety and security. That's why Mandrake advocated the sale of war-combat video games and the circulation of horror-films which presented ideas/images of terrible and dangerous scenarios with ominous adversaries and ugly monsters which helped people feel a catharsis over the anxiety of helplessness in real-life troubles (e.g., 9/11).
Mandrake decided to create a fantastic Internet blog about the inspiration created by fireflies on Earth. He wrote that women walking home late at night after work alone might feel the cold breeze of alienation and insecurity on streets and walkways (in places like Virginia Beach, Miami, San Diego, and Austin) where there was little light (e.g., no street-lamps) and few patrolling policemen. In these circumstances, Mandrake wrote that the appearance of fireflies (with their simple beautiful bioluminescence) would make these women feel like God was watching over them.
Unfortunately, Mandrake's blog was censored, since it condoned the advocacy of radical eco-terrorism related ideas that Earth's natural wonders must be protected at all costs (even by fanatics), since everyone worried about the metaphysical devastation created by neglectful attitudes towards nature's everyday splendors. Mandrake realized the censoring of his blog was not entirely insane, since two months later, he read the news of a strange eco-terrorist in Gotham City named Poison Ivy (a botanist-turned-radical) was capturing fireflies and leaving them in jars placed outside of offices for people to find and open and discover an explosive device attached!
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