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This is a modernism-vignette about values-consistency, inspired by the film The Hudsucker Proxy.
This vignette references Mother Goose and the Harlot of Babylon from Roman Polanski's The Ninth Gate.
Cheers,
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Mother Goose represented all the virtues of teamwork and kindness and community values still vibrant in modern civilization. She was a praise for village-life, farm-bounty, urban-hygiene, and patriotic divinity. Standing against Mother Goose was the mysterious and hauntingly seductive Harlot of Babylon who rode on thrones of fire and shined like a trophy for the AntiChrist (the adversary of Christ, mankind, and marriage). The Harlot of Babylon was a testament of the victory of the flesh and the vanity linked to pure carnal curiosity. Mother Goose wanted to destroy the Harlot of Babylon...on the Internet!
Mother Goose needed help, so she called up to the heavens for the spirit of the immortal White Knight to descend and spread his message of familial joy, valiant service, and honorable duty to a modern world which was somewhat preoccupied with technological achievements. The White Knight was to write blogs on the Internet about the majesty of tradition and respect for agreed-upon urban customs that were considered legal. The White Knight focused his attention on the intrigue surrounding the intellectual-property dissemination on Napster. Standing against him was the purely-evil Black Knight who rose from the sea of hell and wrote contrary blogs on the Internet about the general availability of pornography on the Internet and its relation to free-speech 'values' in modern America!
Everyone wanted the Harlot of Babylon and the Black Knight to win...mostly because it was simply easier and more 'fun' to entreat the basic sensibilities regarding the yearning/urge to rebel and indulge in primal instincts and forego the tedious labors of religion, civics, and values-driven matriarchal guidance in a civilization swarming with commerce. However, when Americans started seeing the general 'magic' of Mother Goose postage stamps (specially-painted and designed to signify a timeless human interest in commercial respectability) on the Internet (posted also by the White Knight), they considered the basic wisdom of 'homegrown democratic idealism.' The Black Knight returned to his underworld-dominion, but he promised the Harlot of Babylon that she would never have to submit to the austere authority of Mother Goose. Mother Goose became the 'diplomat of feminine grace on Amazon.com' and bestowed her special 'capitalism-cornucopia' to the Martha Stewart home-decoration tips/idea website!
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This vignette references Mother Goose and the Harlot of Babylon from Roman Polanski's The Ninth Gate.
Cheers,
====
Mother Goose represented all the virtues of teamwork and kindness and community values still vibrant in modern civilization. She was a praise for village-life, farm-bounty, urban-hygiene, and patriotic divinity. Standing against Mother Goose was the mysterious and hauntingly seductive Harlot of Babylon who rode on thrones of fire and shined like a trophy for the AntiChrist (the adversary of Christ, mankind, and marriage). The Harlot of Babylon was a testament of the victory of the flesh and the vanity linked to pure carnal curiosity. Mother Goose wanted to destroy the Harlot of Babylon...on the Internet!
Mother Goose needed help, so she called up to the heavens for the spirit of the immortal White Knight to descend and spread his message of familial joy, valiant service, and honorable duty to a modern world which was somewhat preoccupied with technological achievements. The White Knight was to write blogs on the Internet about the majesty of tradition and respect for agreed-upon urban customs that were considered legal. The White Knight focused his attention on the intrigue surrounding the intellectual-property dissemination on Napster. Standing against him was the purely-evil Black Knight who rose from the sea of hell and wrote contrary blogs on the Internet about the general availability of pornography on the Internet and its relation to free-speech 'values' in modern America!
Everyone wanted the Harlot of Babylon and the Black Knight to win...mostly because it was simply easier and more 'fun' to entreat the basic sensibilities regarding the yearning/urge to rebel and indulge in primal instincts and forego the tedious labors of religion, civics, and values-driven matriarchal guidance in a civilization swarming with commerce. However, when Americans started seeing the general 'magic' of Mother Goose postage stamps (specially-painted and designed to signify a timeless human interest in commercial respectability) on the Internet (posted also by the White Knight), they considered the basic wisdom of 'homegrown democratic idealism.' The Black Knight returned to his underworld-dominion, but he promised the Harlot of Babylon that she would never have to submit to the austere authority of Mother Goose. Mother Goose became the 'diplomat of feminine grace on Amazon.com' and bestowed her special 'capitalism-cornucopia' to the Martha Stewart home-decoration tips/idea website!
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