Abishai100
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Here's a pro-media TrumpUSA tale about commercial destinies.
How would such a tale be viewed by the countless anti-Trump protesters today?
I personally find TrumpUSA somewhat...dystopian!
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Tom Cruise, the world's most recognizable celebrity, and Ajay Satan, a self-proclaimed Internet-blogging 'free-speech crusader,' became America's 'dynamic duo,' signifying a modernism appreciation of the power of media. Standing in the way to their ascension to power was Bonnie and Clyde (the two iconic and romanticized Depression-era American bank robbers depicted in a celebrated Arthur Penn film starring Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty). Americans were divided into two camps --- in one camp stood those enthusiastic about the power of modern media (e.g., Don Imus, Madonna, Larry King, etc., etc.) and in the other camp stood those inspired by the value of individualism and liberties (e.g., Ralph Nader, Marilyn Manson, Salman Rushdie, etc.).
Ajay knew that if he and Tom were going to become prominent media 'diplomats,' they would have to dispel the pedestrian fears that blocked Americans (and the world!) from embracing the populism politics forwarded by modern age convenience-gauged access to TV, Internet, radio, etc., etc. Ajay knew that the 'libertines' would favor the romanticism that made anti-federalism 'outlaws and poets' such as Bonnie and Clyde timeless symbols of the human urge to resist anything that resembled socialization (including free-speech media!). The libertines believed that even streamlined and mass-marketed advocacy of free-speech values on the Internet stood in the way of the favoritism towards self-determined personalized-choice based shopping and media broadcasting. Many libertines didn't even watch TV...
Cruise was busy making the pro-media films Edge of Tomorrow and American Made so, naturally, he favored the views purported by Ajay, but he was also conscious of the debating complexities raised by the libertines (something Ajay simply did not cater to philosophically). Cruise decided to meet with Ajay and plan a strategy to crush the anti-social fervor created by the libertines without damaging a democratic appreciation for 'hermetic values' such as TV/media boycotting/abstinence. Cruise and Ajay decided to hand in a movie-screenplay to American film-maker Robert Altman about an alien named Troudeau visiting Earth and visiting Donald Trump in the White House to discuss the metaphysical impact of 'Starbucks Society.' The Altman film was a great success and added intrigue to the debate with the libertines.
When Cruise discovered that Ajay was assassinated on Valentine's Day by a libertine-fanatic named Will Stryker, he decided to advertise his populism-intrigue film American Made as representative of a new age democratic interest in 'metropolitan media.' Cruise always remembered Ajay as a true friend to the consumer-advocate. Meanwhile, Will Stryker was deified in punk-rock music as the 'Rebel-Messiah,' and people started referring to him as the Orwellian Killer, and there was even a video-game warrior-avatar named Stryker designed to be modelled after Will in the combat-fantasy video-game Mortal Kombat. As Cruise played Mortal Kombat with his son (using Stryker as his chosen warrior-avatar) he thought to himself, "I bet Ajay wishes he were here now playing this game with me, quashing Stryker and showing friends the power of the digital age!"
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CRUISE and AJAY:
How would such a tale be viewed by the countless anti-Trump protesters today?
I personally find TrumpUSA somewhat...dystopian!
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Tom Cruise, the world's most recognizable celebrity, and Ajay Satan, a self-proclaimed Internet-blogging 'free-speech crusader,' became America's 'dynamic duo,' signifying a modernism appreciation of the power of media. Standing in the way to their ascension to power was Bonnie and Clyde (the two iconic and romanticized Depression-era American bank robbers depicted in a celebrated Arthur Penn film starring Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty). Americans were divided into two camps --- in one camp stood those enthusiastic about the power of modern media (e.g., Don Imus, Madonna, Larry King, etc., etc.) and in the other camp stood those inspired by the value of individualism and liberties (e.g., Ralph Nader, Marilyn Manson, Salman Rushdie, etc.).
Ajay knew that if he and Tom were going to become prominent media 'diplomats,' they would have to dispel the pedestrian fears that blocked Americans (and the world!) from embracing the populism politics forwarded by modern age convenience-gauged access to TV, Internet, radio, etc., etc. Ajay knew that the 'libertines' would favor the romanticism that made anti-federalism 'outlaws and poets' such as Bonnie and Clyde timeless symbols of the human urge to resist anything that resembled socialization (including free-speech media!). The libertines believed that even streamlined and mass-marketed advocacy of free-speech values on the Internet stood in the way of the favoritism towards self-determined personalized-choice based shopping and media broadcasting. Many libertines didn't even watch TV...
Cruise was busy making the pro-media films Edge of Tomorrow and American Made so, naturally, he favored the views purported by Ajay, but he was also conscious of the debating complexities raised by the libertines (something Ajay simply did not cater to philosophically). Cruise decided to meet with Ajay and plan a strategy to crush the anti-social fervor created by the libertines without damaging a democratic appreciation for 'hermetic values' such as TV/media boycotting/abstinence. Cruise and Ajay decided to hand in a movie-screenplay to American film-maker Robert Altman about an alien named Troudeau visiting Earth and visiting Donald Trump in the White House to discuss the metaphysical impact of 'Starbucks Society.' The Altman film was a great success and added intrigue to the debate with the libertines.
When Cruise discovered that Ajay was assassinated on Valentine's Day by a libertine-fanatic named Will Stryker, he decided to advertise his populism-intrigue film American Made as representative of a new age democratic interest in 'metropolitan media.' Cruise always remembered Ajay as a true friend to the consumer-advocate. Meanwhile, Will Stryker was deified in punk-rock music as the 'Rebel-Messiah,' and people started referring to him as the Orwellian Killer, and there was even a video-game warrior-avatar named Stryker designed to be modelled after Will in the combat-fantasy video-game Mortal Kombat. As Cruise played Mortal Kombat with his son (using Stryker as his chosen warrior-avatar) he thought to himself, "I bet Ajay wishes he were here now playing this game with me, quashing Stryker and showing friends the power of the digital age!"
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CRUISE and AJAY: