- Sep 22, 2013
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This is a media-society vignette inspired by Toys and Coming to America.
Signing off,
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American kids loved Highlights Magazine and Cabbage Patch dolls, since the modern age created all kinds of newfound interest in lifestyle-ornamentation (e.g., Facebook, PlayStation, Play-Doh, etc.). Consumerism was making commerce a thing of imaginative frivolity (e.g., Planet Hollywood). A witch living in the forests of the Pine Barrens of New Jersey, however, wondered if Cabbage Patch dolls (which symbolized the 'capitalism harvest') would perhaps be 'haunted' by the demons/ghosts of gluttony and moral 'mischief.'
Anything was up for negotiation in this era of Wall Street and competitive games and sports. The underdog Philadelphia Eagles (NFL) defeated the seemingly-indomitable New England Patriots in Super Bowl 52, and this affected endorsements, TV ads, and even regional sports-fanfare merchandising(!). Radio-personality and society-critic Don Imus remarked, "Perhaps every American consumer should keep a model of a metallic/robotic miniature horse representative of modern commerce-oriented piracy!" Nevertheless, there was still capitalism-management 'optimism' (e.g., WikiLeaks).
America was not necessarily 'embraced' by the global community, however. True, the Trump Administration managed a commerce-oriented region stabilization regarding Korea as the anti-globalization nuclear-missile test crisis involving incendiary pseudo-Communist North Korea during Labor Day 2017, requiring U.S. President Donald Trump to work with democratic trading-partner South Korea using commerce-tactics leading up to the negotiated Winter Olympics in PyeongChang (South Korea) in 2018. Though there was no terrorism at the South Korea Winter Games (and North Korea exhibited peace/solidarity), consumers still wondered if capitalism was breeding dependable/continuous pro-commerce intellectualism(!).
GOD: Maybe everyone has 'varsity blues.'
SATAN: Capitalism-geared politics (e.g., NATO) can be confusing!
GOD: No one wants to be a mere spectator.
SATAN: Piracy is the great danger...
GOD: The Internet-hacker is the *new* terrorist!
SATAN: Commerce is facilitated by gadgets.
GOD: Consumerism is really about convenience.
SATAN: Is there anything 'immoral' about the Vatican website?
GOD: No, and apocrypha-stories by Dan Brown are adapted into movies.
SATAN: Those Tom Hanks series of films (Angels and Demons) are canon now!
GOD: Let's hope Burger King doesn't turn humans into cannibals...
SATAN: Conveniences always threaten to introduce gluttony and avarice.
GOD: Do people 'learn' from movies about Wall Street?
SATAN: I think every consumer appreciates 'human comforts.'
GOD: In that case, we should endorse Christian merchandising!
SATAN: Sure. Jesus dolls are quite popular.
GOD: I like Lucifer Morningstar (DC Comics) stories.
SATAN: They've been adapted into the popular series Lucifer (Fox TV).
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Signing off,
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American kids loved Highlights Magazine and Cabbage Patch dolls, since the modern age created all kinds of newfound interest in lifestyle-ornamentation (e.g., Facebook, PlayStation, Play-Doh, etc.). Consumerism was making commerce a thing of imaginative frivolity (e.g., Planet Hollywood). A witch living in the forests of the Pine Barrens of New Jersey, however, wondered if Cabbage Patch dolls (which symbolized the 'capitalism harvest') would perhaps be 'haunted' by the demons/ghosts of gluttony and moral 'mischief.'
Anything was up for negotiation in this era of Wall Street and competitive games and sports. The underdog Philadelphia Eagles (NFL) defeated the seemingly-indomitable New England Patriots in Super Bowl 52, and this affected endorsements, TV ads, and even regional sports-fanfare merchandising(!). Radio-personality and society-critic Don Imus remarked, "Perhaps every American consumer should keep a model of a metallic/robotic miniature horse representative of modern commerce-oriented piracy!" Nevertheless, there was still capitalism-management 'optimism' (e.g., WikiLeaks).
America was not necessarily 'embraced' by the global community, however. True, the Trump Administration managed a commerce-oriented region stabilization regarding Korea as the anti-globalization nuclear-missile test crisis involving incendiary pseudo-Communist North Korea during Labor Day 2017, requiring U.S. President Donald Trump to work with democratic trading-partner South Korea using commerce-tactics leading up to the negotiated Winter Olympics in PyeongChang (South Korea) in 2018. Though there was no terrorism at the South Korea Winter Games (and North Korea exhibited peace/solidarity), consumers still wondered if capitalism was breeding dependable/continuous pro-commerce intellectualism(!).
GOD: Maybe everyone has 'varsity blues.'
SATAN: Capitalism-geared politics (e.g., NATO) can be confusing!
GOD: No one wants to be a mere spectator.
SATAN: Piracy is the great danger...
GOD: The Internet-hacker is the *new* terrorist!
SATAN: Commerce is facilitated by gadgets.
GOD: Consumerism is really about convenience.
SATAN: Is there anything 'immoral' about the Vatican website?
GOD: No, and apocrypha-stories by Dan Brown are adapted into movies.
SATAN: Those Tom Hanks series of films (Angels and Demons) are canon now!
GOD: Let's hope Burger King doesn't turn humans into cannibals...
SATAN: Conveniences always threaten to introduce gluttony and avarice.
GOD: Do people 'learn' from movies about Wall Street?
SATAN: I think every consumer appreciates 'human comforts.'
GOD: In that case, we should endorse Christian merchandising!
SATAN: Sure. Jesus dolls are quite popular.
GOD: I like Lucifer Morningstar (DC Comics) stories.
SATAN: They've been adapted into the popular series Lucifer (Fox TV).
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