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The modern world is about profits, mergers, ledgers, leverage, markets, monopolies, casinos and stockbrokers, athletes with endorsements, and agents with a thousand agendas.
Hollywood has been busy making representative films of the modern age such as Jerry Maguire, The Wolf of Wall Street, Philadelphia, and Captain America.
The great philosopher-economist Adam Smith suggested in his seminal work The Wealth of Nations that competing states in a capitalism-driven world create currents of unpredictability (which in turn creates the demand for super-governing structures such as the World Bank).
In this asset-driven modern geopolitical 'system,' we can see why investors and merchants alike can seem like 'pirates.'
Surely, this explains the resurgence in popularity of vampire-lore. Vampires are mythological bloodsucking humanoid 'ghouls' who symbolize pure consumption and ravenous lifestyles (even with a hint of 'couture' or 'aesthetics').
Maybe that's why we see new age films such as A Vampire in Brooklyn and Interview with the Vampire.
In this 'modern climate,' we might realize that risk is the 'foundation' of intelligence/imagination, since investors and merchants alike 'gamble' on this speculation-colluded economic universe.
Since risk is such a pronounced 'intellectual factor,' there are countless insurance companies that profit from this modern fortune-based 'consciousness.' These insurance companies hail from a 'philosophy of injury' and sell 'blood-fear' securities to consumers who are somewhat 'paranoid' about losing vitality.
That's why I appreciate the modern relevance of Herman Melville's tale of insurance-fright, The Lightning-rod Man, and Arthur Miller's insurance-sentiment play Death of a Salesman. Both works signify an appreciation of links between commerce culture and human eccentricity!
The emergence of this insurance-conscious 'systemic philosophy of injury' makes agility-themed comic book characters such as Daredevil (Marvel Comics) and Spider-Man (Marvel Comics) and Wonder Woman (DC Comics) representative of 'new age mysticism.' We see these fantastic characters deal with incredible risks, and we think about our mega-capitalist mind and its 'philosophy of injury.'
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DAREDEVIL: The modern world requires much policework.
BULLSEYE: There are so many bandits out there!
DAREDEVIL: That's why we appreciate heroes like Eliot Ness.
BULLSEYE: Bootleggers flourished during Prohibition, and wolves flourish in Wall Street.
DAREDEVIL: Yes, there are many profiteers now...
BULLSEYE: They might as well be pirates or vampires...or worse.
DAREDEVIL: Everyone in the modern world appreciates the sanctity of insurance.
BULLSEYE: Insurance companies profit as much as Wall Street investors.
DAREDEVIL: America was once a colonial land and the realm of the 'Wild West.'
BULLSEYE: Those old world cowboys created the demand for Wyatt Earp!
DAREDEVIL: I like new age films about firefighters and ethical lawyers...
BULLSEYE: Yes, such laborers bolster feelings of safety in an otherwise unpredictable 'bazaar.'
DAREDEVIL: Bullseye, you yourself are a 'bandit,' so what do you think of bank robbery?
BULLSEYE: Bank robbers are romanticized but may have to kill people to perform their 'acts.'
DAREDEVIL: Can we create a world which offers 'spiritual insurance'?
BULLSEYE: That's impossible...
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Hollywood has been busy making representative films of the modern age such as Jerry Maguire, The Wolf of Wall Street, Philadelphia, and Captain America.
The great philosopher-economist Adam Smith suggested in his seminal work The Wealth of Nations that competing states in a capitalism-driven world create currents of unpredictability (which in turn creates the demand for super-governing structures such as the World Bank).
In this asset-driven modern geopolitical 'system,' we can see why investors and merchants alike can seem like 'pirates.'
Surely, this explains the resurgence in popularity of vampire-lore. Vampires are mythological bloodsucking humanoid 'ghouls' who symbolize pure consumption and ravenous lifestyles (even with a hint of 'couture' or 'aesthetics').
Maybe that's why we see new age films such as A Vampire in Brooklyn and Interview with the Vampire.
In this 'modern climate,' we might realize that risk is the 'foundation' of intelligence/imagination, since investors and merchants alike 'gamble' on this speculation-colluded economic universe.
Since risk is such a pronounced 'intellectual factor,' there are countless insurance companies that profit from this modern fortune-based 'consciousness.' These insurance companies hail from a 'philosophy of injury' and sell 'blood-fear' securities to consumers who are somewhat 'paranoid' about losing vitality.
That's why I appreciate the modern relevance of Herman Melville's tale of insurance-fright, The Lightning-rod Man, and Arthur Miller's insurance-sentiment play Death of a Salesman. Both works signify an appreciation of links between commerce culture and human eccentricity!
The emergence of this insurance-conscious 'systemic philosophy of injury' makes agility-themed comic book characters such as Daredevil (Marvel Comics) and Spider-Man (Marvel Comics) and Wonder Woman (DC Comics) representative of 'new age mysticism.' We see these fantastic characters deal with incredible risks, and we think about our mega-capitalist mind and its 'philosophy of injury.'
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DAREDEVIL: The modern world requires much policework.
BULLSEYE: There are so many bandits out there!
DAREDEVIL: That's why we appreciate heroes like Eliot Ness.
BULLSEYE: Bootleggers flourished during Prohibition, and wolves flourish in Wall Street.
DAREDEVIL: Yes, there are many profiteers now...
BULLSEYE: They might as well be pirates or vampires...or worse.
DAREDEVIL: Everyone in the modern world appreciates the sanctity of insurance.
BULLSEYE: Insurance companies profit as much as Wall Street investors.
DAREDEVIL: America was once a colonial land and the realm of the 'Wild West.'
BULLSEYE: Those old world cowboys created the demand for Wyatt Earp!
DAREDEVIL: I like new age films about firefighters and ethical lawyers...
BULLSEYE: Yes, such laborers bolster feelings of safety in an otherwise unpredictable 'bazaar.'
DAREDEVIL: Bullseye, you yourself are a 'bandit,' so what do you think of bank robbery?
BULLSEYE: Bank robbers are romanticized but may have to kill people to perform their 'acts.'
DAREDEVIL: Can we create a world which offers 'spiritual insurance'?
BULLSEYE: That's impossible...
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