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It's interesting how consumerism-culture generates a great deal of social interest in goods and tools/tech and why The Home Depot and Best Buy have become American 'totems.'
Here's a 'consumerism-fantasia tale' about a 'spiritual-battle' involving a thoughtful warrior named Cervantes contending with capitalism-fanaticism and the heroic rescue of a helpless infant named Ana and a capitalism scapegoating 'crusade' involving the idol-worship of the Indian boti (a rustic and bizarre blade-and-board kitchen-tool used for cutting foods on the floor with hand and foot) and how consumerism 'obsession' in a fabled land called Perdido can lead to Nazism-oriented hysteria!
I wonder who would appreciate such a pedestrian capitalism-critique vignette more, U.S. President Donald Trump (himself a former 'capitalism-baron') or First Lady Melania Trump (obligated to be a 'commerce diplomat' of sorts).
Signing off,
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Cervantes was given the mission to rescue a beautiful baby named Ana who was held as a hostage in a mythical place called Perdido where 'citizens' wielded the efficient and brutal boti (a rustic blade-and-board kitchen-tool used for cutting foods on the floor with the hand and foot) as a sociological 'totem-weapon' against consumerism cynicism. The people of Perdido were therefore fanatical about capitalism and made Ana their prophetic scapegoat with messages such as, "Ana is cowardly towards our sacred boti!" Cervantes wanted to get Ana the hell out of Perdido, and he was commissioned to do so by Ana's parents who fled the city!
Cervantes disguised himself as a merchant and roamed around Perdido looking for answers. He soon discovered that Ana was being held in a warehouse where much of the metal used for boti-manufacturing was processed. Cervantes broke into the warehouse one late evening in a ski-mask and cloaked garb and found Ana tied up in a chair in front of a table on which she was served food so she would be kept alive(!). Cervantes sedated the two guards watching Ana with chloroform and then nabbed Ana. He kept Ana in a secret hostel he was staying in and then went back out into the city and stole a boti from a kitchen-goods store.
Cervantes took Ana and his stolen boti and fled the city and made camp on the outskirts of Perdido. Meanwhile, the people of Perdido were furious that Ana was missing and conjectured that a fanatical hero had kidnapped her to save her from the wrath of the citizens. Cervantes kept Ana happy and warm and started developing fatherly affections for the child. He fed her nuts and berries and fresh water from a river. Cervantes felt like he did the right thing and prepared to reunite Ana with her parents. Meanwhile, the people of Perdido were so dismayed by the 'abduction' of Ana that they burned their main kitchen-goods store to the ground.
Cervantes reunited Ana with her parents and then prepared to go on his own way. When Ana's parents asked the mercenary-warrior why he stole a boti from Perdido for himself, he explained he wanted a 'souvenir' of the abject cruelty and fanaticism that swept the minds of such an otherwise ambitious and prosperous city! Ana's parents realized Cervantes was a real warrior and wanted to keep a memory of Perdido so his heart would not be 'blackened' by the fanaticism-dangers of the idolized boti. Ana would grow up to be the wise Queen of Endor (a land where capitalism was tempered rightly by humility).
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Here's a 'consumerism-fantasia tale' about a 'spiritual-battle' involving a thoughtful warrior named Cervantes contending with capitalism-fanaticism and the heroic rescue of a helpless infant named Ana and a capitalism scapegoating 'crusade' involving the idol-worship of the Indian boti (a rustic and bizarre blade-and-board kitchen-tool used for cutting foods on the floor with hand and foot) and how consumerism 'obsession' in a fabled land called Perdido can lead to Nazism-oriented hysteria!
I wonder who would appreciate such a pedestrian capitalism-critique vignette more, U.S. President Donald Trump (himself a former 'capitalism-baron') or First Lady Melania Trump (obligated to be a 'commerce diplomat' of sorts).
Signing off,
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Cervantes was given the mission to rescue a beautiful baby named Ana who was held as a hostage in a mythical place called Perdido where 'citizens' wielded the efficient and brutal boti (a rustic blade-and-board kitchen-tool used for cutting foods on the floor with the hand and foot) as a sociological 'totem-weapon' against consumerism cynicism. The people of Perdido were therefore fanatical about capitalism and made Ana their prophetic scapegoat with messages such as, "Ana is cowardly towards our sacred boti!" Cervantes wanted to get Ana the hell out of Perdido, and he was commissioned to do so by Ana's parents who fled the city!
Cervantes disguised himself as a merchant and roamed around Perdido looking for answers. He soon discovered that Ana was being held in a warehouse where much of the metal used for boti-manufacturing was processed. Cervantes broke into the warehouse one late evening in a ski-mask and cloaked garb and found Ana tied up in a chair in front of a table on which she was served food so she would be kept alive(!). Cervantes sedated the two guards watching Ana with chloroform and then nabbed Ana. He kept Ana in a secret hostel he was staying in and then went back out into the city and stole a boti from a kitchen-goods store.
Cervantes took Ana and his stolen boti and fled the city and made camp on the outskirts of Perdido. Meanwhile, the people of Perdido were furious that Ana was missing and conjectured that a fanatical hero had kidnapped her to save her from the wrath of the citizens. Cervantes kept Ana happy and warm and started developing fatherly affections for the child. He fed her nuts and berries and fresh water from a river. Cervantes felt like he did the right thing and prepared to reunite Ana with her parents. Meanwhile, the people of Perdido were so dismayed by the 'abduction' of Ana that they burned their main kitchen-goods store to the ground.
Cervantes reunited Ana with her parents and then prepared to go on his own way. When Ana's parents asked the mercenary-warrior why he stole a boti from Perdido for himself, he explained he wanted a 'souvenir' of the abject cruelty and fanaticism that swept the minds of such an otherwise ambitious and prosperous city! Ana's parents realized Cervantes was a real warrior and wanted to keep a memory of Perdido so his heart would not be 'blackened' by the fanaticism-dangers of the idolized boti. Ana would grow up to be the wise Queen of Endor (a land where capitalism was tempered rightly by humility).
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