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This is a sports-and-consumerism parable inspired by Jerry Maguire, The Last Boy Scout, and Guns, Girls, and Gambling.
It's a capitalism-sardonic political 'treatise' dedicated to U.S. President Donald Trump, who I hope does not interpret this 'consumerism-critique' as another anti-TrumpUSA 'protest rite.'
Cheers (signing off),
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"Why did I want to subvert the entire American system of Fantasy Football and sports-gambling? Well, let's just say consumerism-consciousness had turned the 'spirit' of fanfare and competitive risk-analysis in sports into a 'capital machine.' People weren't even inspired by the lottery anymore. Now that there was complete chaos regarding Fantasy Football, Tyler and I could sit back and smoke cigars. It wasn't an easy revolution. It started with careful planning and contemplation of real American consumer-based schizophrenia."
"When the Goliath-like New England Patriots faced the upstart Philadelphia Eagles in Super Bowl 52, Fantasy Football gamers, sports-writers, and fans alike wanted to see what a 'surprise-victory' (unpredicted by experts) would do to the 'machine' of modern sports marketing. After the Eagles somehow downed Brady's Patriots, Tyler and I began making blogs on the Internet about why sports-gamblers and Fantasy Football gamers should now celebrate Philly cheesesteaks more than New England clam chowder. Slowly, Americans were becoming 'loosed' about the 'aura' of sports machinery."
"You have to understand that the sports-marketing Behemoth turns most fans off. We want to see a veteran NFL QB like Kurt Warner train a prodigy like Matt Leinart (both played for the Cardinals) rather than competing with each other like an unhealthy 'father-and-son' duo. However, sports-marketing/gambling had turned the fanfare-arena into something of a 'popcorn freakshow.' That's why Tyler and I wanted to create some needed confusion/vertigo in Fantasy Football after Super Bowl 52. Fans didn't know anymore if Philly cheesesteaks were more 'sacred' than New England clam chowder."
"When Tyler learned that the Devil was on Earth while the Oakland Raiders planned a significant move to the casino-city of Las Vegas, he asked the Devil about his insidious intentions. The Devil told him, apparently, that it was modern marketing maneuvers such as the Raiders-Vegas move that catalyzed some of the traffic/commerce cynicism that led to the Vegas shootings. The Vegas shootings were arguably as 'scarring' as the recent high-school shootings (e.g., Columbine) in America. The Devil was doing his handiwork, and there would no doubt be movies made about all this madness."
"Finally, David Fincher released his much-anticipated sequel to Fight Club, simply called Fight Club 2. In this sequel, the protagonist, an unnamed bored bureaucrat, becomes haunted by the spectre of a revolutionary hellraiser (which may simply be his Freudian alter-ego) who chooses to walk back into the bureaucrat's life and urge him to create another 'spectacle' of anti-social fervor that could parallel their previous successful jaunt at destroying major credit card company buildings to create financial brooding and self-consciousness. This time, the new 'scheme' is to create havoc and mayhem and anarchy in the sports-gambling and Fantasy Football system. Tyler and I couldn't believe Hollywood (USA) was actually making a movie about precisely what Tyler and I were planning. Was this all some kind of cosmic karma?"
"As Lucifer began doing mischief in sports-gambling societies/arenas in Vegas and elsewhere, Tyler and I continued to use the Eagles-Patriots Super Bowl intrigue to fuel more jitters into the Philly cheesesteak and New England clam chowder 'confusion heresy.' It was all rather poetic, but consumerism-cynicism and capitalism-subversion was 'Lucifer's Visa.' Lucifer, the alternate name for Satan (or the Devil), was now even depicted in comic books and a Fox TV series simply titled Lucifer. Would anthropologists of the future look back on our time and remark that consumerism catalyzed various forms of anti-social myopia?"
"Tyler and I decided to visit the grave-honor site of the Vegas shootings in Nevada. We took photos of the flowers laid by the Vegas-Welcome sign in honor of the victims of the shootings. Yeah, capitalism had really turned sour, and 9/11 was a wake-up call to all us complacent 'bureaucrats' that commerce and traffic still required major doses of 'parental supervision.' Tyler and I wondered if capitalism itself would give birth to a kind of 'anti-democratic boogeyman'."
"When the 'cohorts' of our Fantasy Football 'plot' ask me why Tyler and I did what we did, we tell them that Philly cheesesteaks and New England clam chowder are delicious because they're sacred; not sacred because they're delicious. All in all, consumerism and capitalism would survive the day...somehow. What was important was that censorship concerns in the modern age of media did not complicate the social interest in free-speech regarding the basic need to criticize capitalism empiricism non-violently."
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It's a capitalism-sardonic political 'treatise' dedicated to U.S. President Donald Trump, who I hope does not interpret this 'consumerism-critique' as another anti-TrumpUSA 'protest rite.'
Cheers (signing off),
====
"Why did I want to subvert the entire American system of Fantasy Football and sports-gambling? Well, let's just say consumerism-consciousness had turned the 'spirit' of fanfare and competitive risk-analysis in sports into a 'capital machine.' People weren't even inspired by the lottery anymore. Now that there was complete chaos regarding Fantasy Football, Tyler and I could sit back and smoke cigars. It wasn't an easy revolution. It started with careful planning and contemplation of real American consumer-based schizophrenia."
"When the Goliath-like New England Patriots faced the upstart Philadelphia Eagles in Super Bowl 52, Fantasy Football gamers, sports-writers, and fans alike wanted to see what a 'surprise-victory' (unpredicted by experts) would do to the 'machine' of modern sports marketing. After the Eagles somehow downed Brady's Patriots, Tyler and I began making blogs on the Internet about why sports-gamblers and Fantasy Football gamers should now celebrate Philly cheesesteaks more than New England clam chowder. Slowly, Americans were becoming 'loosed' about the 'aura' of sports machinery."
"You have to understand that the sports-marketing Behemoth turns most fans off. We want to see a veteran NFL QB like Kurt Warner train a prodigy like Matt Leinart (both played for the Cardinals) rather than competing with each other like an unhealthy 'father-and-son' duo. However, sports-marketing/gambling had turned the fanfare-arena into something of a 'popcorn freakshow.' That's why Tyler and I wanted to create some needed confusion/vertigo in Fantasy Football after Super Bowl 52. Fans didn't know anymore if Philly cheesesteaks were more 'sacred' than New England clam chowder."
"When Tyler learned that the Devil was on Earth while the Oakland Raiders planned a significant move to the casino-city of Las Vegas, he asked the Devil about his insidious intentions. The Devil told him, apparently, that it was modern marketing maneuvers such as the Raiders-Vegas move that catalyzed some of the traffic/commerce cynicism that led to the Vegas shootings. The Vegas shootings were arguably as 'scarring' as the recent high-school shootings (e.g., Columbine) in America. The Devil was doing his handiwork, and there would no doubt be movies made about all this madness."
"Finally, David Fincher released his much-anticipated sequel to Fight Club, simply called Fight Club 2. In this sequel, the protagonist, an unnamed bored bureaucrat, becomes haunted by the spectre of a revolutionary hellraiser (which may simply be his Freudian alter-ego) who chooses to walk back into the bureaucrat's life and urge him to create another 'spectacle' of anti-social fervor that could parallel their previous successful jaunt at destroying major credit card company buildings to create financial brooding and self-consciousness. This time, the new 'scheme' is to create havoc and mayhem and anarchy in the sports-gambling and Fantasy Football system. Tyler and I couldn't believe Hollywood (USA) was actually making a movie about precisely what Tyler and I were planning. Was this all some kind of cosmic karma?"
"As Lucifer began doing mischief in sports-gambling societies/arenas in Vegas and elsewhere, Tyler and I continued to use the Eagles-Patriots Super Bowl intrigue to fuel more jitters into the Philly cheesesteak and New England clam chowder 'confusion heresy.' It was all rather poetic, but consumerism-cynicism and capitalism-subversion was 'Lucifer's Visa.' Lucifer, the alternate name for Satan (or the Devil), was now even depicted in comic books and a Fox TV series simply titled Lucifer. Would anthropologists of the future look back on our time and remark that consumerism catalyzed various forms of anti-social myopia?"
"Tyler and I decided to visit the grave-honor site of the Vegas shootings in Nevada. We took photos of the flowers laid by the Vegas-Welcome sign in honor of the victims of the shootings. Yeah, capitalism had really turned sour, and 9/11 was a wake-up call to all us complacent 'bureaucrats' that commerce and traffic still required major doses of 'parental supervision.' Tyler and I wondered if capitalism itself would give birth to a kind of 'anti-democratic boogeyman'."
"When the 'cohorts' of our Fantasy Football 'plot' ask me why Tyler and I did what we did, we tell them that Philly cheesesteaks and New England clam chowder are delicious because they're sacred; not sacred because they're delicious. All in all, consumerism and capitalism would survive the day...somehow. What was important was that censorship concerns in the modern age of media did not complicate the social interest in free-speech regarding the basic need to criticize capitalism empiricism non-violently."
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