- Sep 22, 2013
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How has 9/11 changed our 'folk storytelling tone' about federalism, terrorism, and civics?
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King Edilson was once a wayward prince but redeemed himself and became a minister of social cohesion in what was called The Federation of the Americas. He wrote of his experiences in a memoir titled, The Blue Flower:
"After repenting for the sins of my youth (Halloween pranks with children of Romania, marijuana use, graffiti on castles, etc.), I devoted my life to vigilantism, calling myself 'Arrow' (as in 'arrow of truth'). I worked in Los Angeles and London, ridding the city streets of vandals and mobsters with my electric stun-gun, rope, and tranquilizer-tipped arrows. I kept my identity a secret but the press hailed me as a 'Modern Robin Hood.' It was during my third year of vigilante-work that I met the American movie actor and celebrity Tom Cruise.
Cruise and I believed in using the media (e.g., TV, movies, Internet, etc.) to forward ideas about pluralism and tolerance. Cruise was interested in Scientology free-speech, while I was interested in civics-responsibility social dialogue on the Internet and in newspapers and magazines. Cruise and I formed an alliance. He called himself 'Lantern' (as in 'light of guidance'), and I sent an anonymous piece to the Washington Post with the title, 'The Lantern-Arrow Media Crusade,' which surprisingly generated a great deal of street-gossip.
At the height of our influence, Cruise suggested we support censoring the statements of anti-federalists who mistrusted America's brand of pseudo-vigilante citizenry civics engagement in favor of anti-Western socialism-oriented terrorism and anarchy. I disagreed with Cruise/Lantern that censorship would cater to democratic aspirations, even when dealing with fanatics (since democracy relies on open-mindedness). We parted ways, but by then we had our own 'factions' of friends/supporters, so what ensued was the Lantern-Arrow Ideology Civil War.
The rift between Cruise and I subsided, and we continued our work with the modernism problems (e.g., urban crime, industrial pollution, illegal immigration, intellectual property theft, capitalism corruption, EU/NATO, North Korea nuclear weapons, etc.) as they related to democracy endorsements in the media. Cruise had made two important films about patriotism (Born on the 4th of July and Lions for Lambs) and two important films about creative discourse (Minority Report and Edge of Tomorrow). I had written two short-stories (on the Internet) about the development of populism politics in America titled The Bartleby Hexagon and Justice League: Leviathan.
The union Cruise and I formed would be known as G.I. Joe, and our adversaries (a loose global network of anti-republican terrorists) would be referred to as 'Cobra.' Despite the Civil War between us, Cruise and I donned the titles Duke and Snake-Eyes and became the informal supreme ministers of G.I. Joe and we each had our loyal allies/supporters. It was at this time that Cruise/Duke and I fell in love with the same woman, a lawyer and teacher (at Yale University) named Scarlett. We both believed we deserved her affections, and this new rift created between us made us very conscious and sensitive about the very basic human emotions in the modern world of networking-gauged 'psychology' (e.g., Facebook) that give rise to tangible anti-pedestrian sentiments towards terrorism, anarchy, and friendship (but mostly terrorism!)."
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King Edilson was once a wayward prince but redeemed himself and became a minister of social cohesion in what was called The Federation of the Americas. He wrote of his experiences in a memoir titled, The Blue Flower:
"After repenting for the sins of my youth (Halloween pranks with children of Romania, marijuana use, graffiti on castles, etc.), I devoted my life to vigilantism, calling myself 'Arrow' (as in 'arrow of truth'). I worked in Los Angeles and London, ridding the city streets of vandals and mobsters with my electric stun-gun, rope, and tranquilizer-tipped arrows. I kept my identity a secret but the press hailed me as a 'Modern Robin Hood.' It was during my third year of vigilante-work that I met the American movie actor and celebrity Tom Cruise.
Cruise and I believed in using the media (e.g., TV, movies, Internet, etc.) to forward ideas about pluralism and tolerance. Cruise was interested in Scientology free-speech, while I was interested in civics-responsibility social dialogue on the Internet and in newspapers and magazines. Cruise and I formed an alliance. He called himself 'Lantern' (as in 'light of guidance'), and I sent an anonymous piece to the Washington Post with the title, 'The Lantern-Arrow Media Crusade,' which surprisingly generated a great deal of street-gossip.
At the height of our influence, Cruise suggested we support censoring the statements of anti-federalists who mistrusted America's brand of pseudo-vigilante citizenry civics engagement in favor of anti-Western socialism-oriented terrorism and anarchy. I disagreed with Cruise/Lantern that censorship would cater to democratic aspirations, even when dealing with fanatics (since democracy relies on open-mindedness). We parted ways, but by then we had our own 'factions' of friends/supporters, so what ensued was the Lantern-Arrow Ideology Civil War.
The rift between Cruise and I subsided, and we continued our work with the modernism problems (e.g., urban crime, industrial pollution, illegal immigration, intellectual property theft, capitalism corruption, EU/NATO, North Korea nuclear weapons, etc.) as they related to democracy endorsements in the media. Cruise had made two important films about patriotism (Born on the 4th of July and Lions for Lambs) and two important films about creative discourse (Minority Report and Edge of Tomorrow). I had written two short-stories (on the Internet) about the development of populism politics in America titled The Bartleby Hexagon and Justice League: Leviathan.
The union Cruise and I formed would be known as G.I. Joe, and our adversaries (a loose global network of anti-republican terrorists) would be referred to as 'Cobra.' Despite the Civil War between us, Cruise and I donned the titles Duke and Snake-Eyes and became the informal supreme ministers of G.I. Joe and we each had our loyal allies/supporters. It was at this time that Cruise/Duke and I fell in love with the same woman, a lawyer and teacher (at Yale University) named Scarlett. We both believed we deserved her affections, and this new rift created between us made us very conscious and sensitive about the very basic human emotions in the modern world of networking-gauged 'psychology' (e.g., Facebook) that give rise to tangible anti-pedestrian sentiments towards terrorism, anarchy, and friendship (but mostly terrorism!)."
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