The Prophet: Tool-Theater

Abishai100

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This is a modernism-paranoia parable inspired by the 'machinery-prophecy' films The Lawnmower Man and Ghost in the Machine.

Signing off,



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Alas was studying the use and development of efficient but deadly tools used by everyday people such as the boti (a blade-and-board kitchen-tool for cutting foods on the floor with hand-and-foot) and the sledgehammer (a heavy-metal pounding instrument) and how potent items paralleled the rise of popular power-tools such as the electric drill, the chainsaw, and the lawnmower. Alas wondered if he was crazy, but he was certain that modernism focus on the 'surfaces' and 'textures' of useful items/tools reflected a new age consumerism consciousness regarding utilitarianism marketing. Alas even watched horror-films in which psychos/ghouls used these 'items' (e.g., hammers, axes, chainsaws) to literally terrorize humanity.

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Alas understood that his 'inventory' of devastation and efficiency in the modern 'tool-matrix' reflected a new age imagination regarding the cropping and 'harvesting' of goods and services and even disposable commodities such as contact lenses, paper plates, and batteries. Alas wondered if the popularity of consumerism-symbolic American store-chains such as Home Depot (hardware) and Best Buy (electronics) reflected a modernism imagination regarding 'accessible conveniences.' Alas also wondered if this kind of 'convenience-themed' imagination was making humanity at once lazy and prone to gluttony (and hence mischief!).

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Alas reasoned that this all went to the 'doors of perception' or imagination, and that if lawnmowers and chainsaws were being used by everyday people to perform everyday labors, then humanity was becoming sensitized to and sensitive of(!) access and hallways to goods and services. Alas reasoned that horror-films would most likely present ghouls who stole these iconic 'items' from hardware stores and use them as 'antisocial toys' to terrorize society itself! Alas therefore feared that a new antisocial 'nemesis' would rise to power in this consumerism-centric modern civilization and serve as a demonic 'punisher' of new age sensibilities.

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Two months later, Alas read in the newspaper that a psycho was wandering around and kidnapping grooms of newlywed couples whose weddings were posted in public forums (newspapers, Internet, etc.) and cutting their hands off with shears or by closing heavy metal doors on the hands. This psycho would leave the hands of these victims in front of the police station with diamond placed in the palms and a note that read, "Another lazy victim!" Alas concluded that this new 'nemesis' was certainly 'perceptive' of this modernism sensitivity to labors and the use of hands for tools and toys and items. Alas started tracking this psycho like a vigilante!

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Alas caught the psycho who was hiding in a warehouse(!) in NYC and questioned him. The psycho called himself 'The Prophet,' and he seemed to believe that the removal of hands signified a stern modern focus on the moral apathy towards the 'proper' use of consumerism 'items' and tools. Alas realized he was correct all along about his offbeat modernism theories, so he asked 'The Prophet' why he slammed heavy metal doors to sever the hands of grooms, and the psycho eerily explained, "Violence teaches us about fitness!" The Prophet was sentenced to life-in-prison, and Alas knew that civilization evolution would always come 'hand-in-hand' with the emergence of 'allegorical machinery nemeses' (e.g., Jack the Ripper, Charles Manson, etc.).


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