- Sep 22, 2013
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Does consumerism-culture make you think about the Big '80s?
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"Americans loved toys (Fisher-Price, Hasbro, Mattel, Toys 'R Us) and movies about toys (Toy Story, Toys, Babes in Toyland). Toys were the tokens and gateways to consumerism consciousness, since they represented capitalism-idealism being sold to the youth. The culture of consumerism really took shape between 1980 and 2000, and after the new millennium began, consumerism (eBay, eTrade, Amazon.com, Wal-Mart, Wall Street, NASDAQ, etc.) was in full-swing. Archaeologists considered how 1980s consumerism-symbolic relics/toys such as the Sony Walkman and compact audio cassettes represented the 'genesis' of commerce-based 'etiquette' and style!"
"American movie-stars such as Tom Hanks were making such convenience-consciousness themed films such as Big, Sleepless in Seattle, and Cast Away that sociologists mused that Hanks might be Lord Vishnu (Hindu god of imagination-protection on Earth) incarnate here to remind humanity of the inherent 'magic' of pedestrian life. Was Hollywood something consumerism would be deified or demonized for, and who would be the critics?"
"After all was said and done, it could be argued that Vishnu really was Tom Hanks which might prompt Lord Shiva (Hindu god of anarchy and governance and destruction) to also arrive on Earth, disguised as two or more Internet-blogging modern-day American 'intellectual radicals' (similar to Edward Abbey, Steve Jobs, or Tim Burton) spreading messages about metropolis and masquerade. Would this 'incarnate-Shiva' challenge the dominion of Hanks/Vishnu regarding the blind mob obsession with consumerism-trophies and trinkets such as archaeologically-symbolic 1980s compact audio cassettes? Would Shiva embrace Wal-Mart and Samsung?"
SHIVA: Consumerism is part-cholesterol and somewhat suffocating.
VISHNU: To avoid gluttony we need only embrace toys!
SHIVA: Toys are great, but parental-supervision is wise...
VISHNU: Don't destroy my child-like daydream about free will.
SHIVA: Consumerism is indeed free will but it is also about sharing.
VISHNU: Are you a fan of Facebook?
SHIVA: I like Polaroid instant-cameras and Samsung smartphones.
VISHNU: Modern 'toys/gadgets' symbolize intellectual daring!
SHIVA: If that's true, we'll see kids playing lots of video-games...
VISHNU: Why do you say that, Lord Shiva?
SHIVA: Video-games represent idealism towards civilization progress.
VISHNU: Oh, right, since they're mostly harmless and mesmerizing.
SHIVA: Yes, the Sega Genesis, Xbox, and PlayStation are real trophies.
VISHNU: I wonder if anti-capitalist terrorists simply hate American imagination(!).
SHIVA: They don't appreciate our Burger King society, but they envy Wall Street.
VISHNU: Everyone who is not part of Wall Street wishes secretly they were...
SHIVA: It's an intricate little civilization-game, but it can lead to gambling.
VISHNU: Are you a fan of Bonnie and Clyde?
SHIVA: I think bank-robbery is glorified as 'adventurous' in a claustrophobic capitalism.
VISHNU: I think Wal-Mart will motivate all kinds of new age terrorism.
SHIVA: I doubt that commerce will not prevent mass anarchy; that's the goal of Trump.
VISHNU: America elected a celebrity casino-baron as its President!
SHIVA: That's not that silly; just look at the glories of Chinatown, San Francisco.
VISHNU: Alright, perhaps ethnic business districts really do create magic...
SHIVA: Commerce is the best way to resolve democracy with capitalism-theory.
VISHNU: Yes, the trading of goods and artisanship reminds people of gentlemanly business.
SHIVA: Without creative goods (e.g., toys), we'd only think of stocks and bonds.
VISHNU: I think anti-terrorism storyboards in cartoons/comics will be honoured.
"After Shiva and Vishnu concluded their debate about consumerism imagination/IQ, they decided to look at the art of many modern-day comic book writers creating panels/stories about the intriguing and beautiful Marvel Comics superheroine She-Hulk, a muscular idol who represented the values of gender-based teamwork in a modern state/society. They found some rather impressive She-Hulk drawings they liked and considered how comic book art would be considered the pedestrian graffiti expressive of great confluence tolerance. After all, comic book art appealed to both kids and adults. America entreated such 'pedestrian prose.' America loved television and ornaments."
"Wal-Mart began selling vintage Green Giant canned-vegetable brand related early-period advertisement-flyers and portraits in praise of the inception of consumerism and the modern age of the department store and supermarket. You walk into a mall or super-store and can purchase pet-food, trench-coats, computers, orange juice, video-games, magazines, and just about anything (all under one roof!). The shopping-experience was like 'candyland' and anti-capitalist terrorists (i.e., ISIS) despised this nouveau-development and warned Americans that biochemical warfare was a spiritual 'backlash' against the terrible godless reality of industrialization-related toxic-waste."
FARM-REBEL: I doubt all this Wal-Mart flowery will ever be considered 'divine.'
CELEBRITY: You're simply worried about the impact of network on agrarianism.
FARM-REBEL: Shouldn't I be? Just think about the consequences of deforestation!
CELEBRITY: We cut down trees to make paper, and now we have email.
"As many kinds of intriguing discussions developed, Christian conservatives pondered the wisdom of advocating parental admonishments about the accessibility of pornography and junk-food in this new age of convenience-based consumerism customs and culture(!). Victoria's Secret, Gap Kids, Oil of Olay, Flintstones vitamins, Lucky Charms cereal, and Irish Spring bath-soap became the 'ornamental corollaries' to the 'supermarket-consciousness toys' of consumerism-culture (e.g., Pez candy, iPods, Playboy, etc.). Everything had to be 'refined'."
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"Americans loved toys (Fisher-Price, Hasbro, Mattel, Toys 'R Us) and movies about toys (Toy Story, Toys, Babes in Toyland). Toys were the tokens and gateways to consumerism consciousness, since they represented capitalism-idealism being sold to the youth. The culture of consumerism really took shape between 1980 and 2000, and after the new millennium began, consumerism (eBay, eTrade, Amazon.com, Wal-Mart, Wall Street, NASDAQ, etc.) was in full-swing. Archaeologists considered how 1980s consumerism-symbolic relics/toys such as the Sony Walkman and compact audio cassettes represented the 'genesis' of commerce-based 'etiquette' and style!"
"American movie-stars such as Tom Hanks were making such convenience-consciousness themed films such as Big, Sleepless in Seattle, and Cast Away that sociologists mused that Hanks might be Lord Vishnu (Hindu god of imagination-protection on Earth) incarnate here to remind humanity of the inherent 'magic' of pedestrian life. Was Hollywood something consumerism would be deified or demonized for, and who would be the critics?"
"After all was said and done, it could be argued that Vishnu really was Tom Hanks which might prompt Lord Shiva (Hindu god of anarchy and governance and destruction) to also arrive on Earth, disguised as two or more Internet-blogging modern-day American 'intellectual radicals' (similar to Edward Abbey, Steve Jobs, or Tim Burton) spreading messages about metropolis and masquerade. Would this 'incarnate-Shiva' challenge the dominion of Hanks/Vishnu regarding the blind mob obsession with consumerism-trophies and trinkets such as archaeologically-symbolic 1980s compact audio cassettes? Would Shiva embrace Wal-Mart and Samsung?"
SHIVA: Consumerism is part-cholesterol and somewhat suffocating.
VISHNU: To avoid gluttony we need only embrace toys!
SHIVA: Toys are great, but parental-supervision is wise...
VISHNU: Don't destroy my child-like daydream about free will.
SHIVA: Consumerism is indeed free will but it is also about sharing.
VISHNU: Are you a fan of Facebook?
SHIVA: I like Polaroid instant-cameras and Samsung smartphones.
VISHNU: Modern 'toys/gadgets' symbolize intellectual daring!
SHIVA: If that's true, we'll see kids playing lots of video-games...
VISHNU: Why do you say that, Lord Shiva?
SHIVA: Video-games represent idealism towards civilization progress.
VISHNU: Oh, right, since they're mostly harmless and mesmerizing.
SHIVA: Yes, the Sega Genesis, Xbox, and PlayStation are real trophies.
VISHNU: I wonder if anti-capitalist terrorists simply hate American imagination(!).
SHIVA: They don't appreciate our Burger King society, but they envy Wall Street.
VISHNU: Everyone who is not part of Wall Street wishes secretly they were...
SHIVA: It's an intricate little civilization-game, but it can lead to gambling.
VISHNU: Are you a fan of Bonnie and Clyde?
SHIVA: I think bank-robbery is glorified as 'adventurous' in a claustrophobic capitalism.
VISHNU: I think Wal-Mart will motivate all kinds of new age terrorism.
SHIVA: I doubt that commerce will not prevent mass anarchy; that's the goal of Trump.
VISHNU: America elected a celebrity casino-baron as its President!
SHIVA: That's not that silly; just look at the glories of Chinatown, San Francisco.
VISHNU: Alright, perhaps ethnic business districts really do create magic...
SHIVA: Commerce is the best way to resolve democracy with capitalism-theory.
VISHNU: Yes, the trading of goods and artisanship reminds people of gentlemanly business.
SHIVA: Without creative goods (e.g., toys), we'd only think of stocks and bonds.
VISHNU: I think anti-terrorism storyboards in cartoons/comics will be honoured.
"After Shiva and Vishnu concluded their debate about consumerism imagination/IQ, they decided to look at the art of many modern-day comic book writers creating panels/stories about the intriguing and beautiful Marvel Comics superheroine She-Hulk, a muscular idol who represented the values of gender-based teamwork in a modern state/society. They found some rather impressive She-Hulk drawings they liked and considered how comic book art would be considered the pedestrian graffiti expressive of great confluence tolerance. After all, comic book art appealed to both kids and adults. America entreated such 'pedestrian prose.' America loved television and ornaments."
"Wal-Mart began selling vintage Green Giant canned-vegetable brand related early-period advertisement-flyers and portraits in praise of the inception of consumerism and the modern age of the department store and supermarket. You walk into a mall or super-store and can purchase pet-food, trench-coats, computers, orange juice, video-games, magazines, and just about anything (all under one roof!). The shopping-experience was like 'candyland' and anti-capitalist terrorists (i.e., ISIS) despised this nouveau-development and warned Americans that biochemical warfare was a spiritual 'backlash' against the terrible godless reality of industrialization-related toxic-waste."
FARM-REBEL: I doubt all this Wal-Mart flowery will ever be considered 'divine.'
CELEBRITY: You're simply worried about the impact of network on agrarianism.
FARM-REBEL: Shouldn't I be? Just think about the consequences of deforestation!
CELEBRITY: We cut down trees to make paper, and now we have email.
FARM-REBEL: There's something still 'sexy' about seeing a laptop in a treehouse.
CELEBRITY: Alright, I'll confess that treehouses appeal to the 'wild-child' within.
FARM-REBEL: If we ignore this 'wild-child,' we'll become Orwellian statistics.
CELEBRITY: Are you kidding? There's nothing that serious about Wal-Mart.
FARM-REBEL: Wrong! Kids become followers of what their parents do.
CELEBRITY: And you're worried about kids seeing the 'fascism' of Wal-Mart?
FARM-REBEL: Precisely; students must be reminded of the virtue of commerce.
CELEBRITY: Don't you think toys suffice in that 'metaphysical' message?
FARM-REBEL: Toys without a culture of aesthetics only leads to pockets of crudeness.
CELEBRITY: I suppose you're referring to the neglect of toxic-waste.
FARM-REBEL: Yes! Why sell Toxic Avenger comics while creating eco-pollution?
CELEBRITY: You're correct; it's somewhat ironically 'defeatist.'
FARM-REBEL: That's why farmers have the right to criticize Acme/Wal-Mart.
CELEBRITY: The dreams of the small-farmer will not be ignored in this consumerism-age.
FARM-REBEL: Let's make sure that doesn't happen and farmers are considered 'advocates.'
CELEBRITY: Even kids of farmers like American films such as The Color Purple.
FARM-REBEL: Creative psychology is fine as long as it's complemented with democracy.
CELEBRITY: I think pluralism will be favoured in this great Age of Facebook.
FARM-REBEL: Perhaps Green Giant will improve the 'aura' of farm-sanctity.
CELEBRITY: It's all up to President Donald Trump(!).
CELEBRITY: Alright, I'll confess that treehouses appeal to the 'wild-child' within.
FARM-REBEL: If we ignore this 'wild-child,' we'll become Orwellian statistics.
CELEBRITY: Are you kidding? There's nothing that serious about Wal-Mart.
FARM-REBEL: Wrong! Kids become followers of what their parents do.
CELEBRITY: And you're worried about kids seeing the 'fascism' of Wal-Mart?
FARM-REBEL: Precisely; students must be reminded of the virtue of commerce.
CELEBRITY: Don't you think toys suffice in that 'metaphysical' message?
FARM-REBEL: Toys without a culture of aesthetics only leads to pockets of crudeness.
CELEBRITY: I suppose you're referring to the neglect of toxic-waste.
FARM-REBEL: Yes! Why sell Toxic Avenger comics while creating eco-pollution?
CELEBRITY: You're correct; it's somewhat ironically 'defeatist.'
FARM-REBEL: That's why farmers have the right to criticize Acme/Wal-Mart.
CELEBRITY: The dreams of the small-farmer will not be ignored in this consumerism-age.
FARM-REBEL: Let's make sure that doesn't happen and farmers are considered 'advocates.'
CELEBRITY: Even kids of farmers like American films such as The Color Purple.
FARM-REBEL: Creative psychology is fine as long as it's complemented with democracy.
CELEBRITY: I think pluralism will be favoured in this great Age of Facebook.
FARM-REBEL: Perhaps Green Giant will improve the 'aura' of farm-sanctity.
CELEBRITY: It's all up to President Donald Trump(!).
"As many kinds of intriguing discussions developed, Christian conservatives pondered the wisdom of advocating parental admonishments about the accessibility of pornography and junk-food in this new age of convenience-based consumerism customs and culture(!). Victoria's Secret, Gap Kids, Oil of Olay, Flintstones vitamins, Lucky Charms cereal, and Irish Spring bath-soap became the 'ornamental corollaries' to the 'supermarket-consciousness toys' of consumerism-culture (e.g., Pez candy, iPods, Playboy, etc.). Everything had to be 'refined'."
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