- Sep 22, 2013
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This modernism-parable was inspired by the dystopia-nightmare films The Matrix and Dark City.
Signing off,
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Paradise on Earth was supposed to be about celebrities and incredible virtual information-superhighway configurations, but instead, capitalism/consumerism had driven the world towards a state of fortune-minded urbanites. Gone was the concept of networking and working from home while on the islands of Tahiti or Fiji; instead people meditated on the glory of NYC and LA. Instead of a Tom Cruise theme-park, we would see a factory-labor themed national holiday emerging in the new 'dark-city.'
This new metaphysical 'reality' was based upon the imagination of (arguably) Isaac Asimov and George Orwell and to a lesser-degree Ray Bradbury, but who could've imagined that our modernism fantasies about the incredible scope and scale of urbanization and pure commercial ambition (i.e., Wall Street) would effectively construct a 'money-gluttony' Behemoth we could liberally refer to as 'Babylon.' This dark-city was built on stone cold gray cement and countless chips and wires and was disattached from the child-like daydreams of Utopia we'd seen in the early days of radio.
Fortunately, a magical unicorn named Venger saved the day with his incredible horn of magic and wondrous rainbow-colored dripping mane. Venger was pure white and could fly, and he was piercing the very jaded soul of modern urbanization-related spiritual claustrophobia, and writers and comic book artists wrote about him, wondering if his magic horn would literally destroy the overbearing influence of 'Big Brother' and shatter the dark-cylinder of monotonous routine consumerism --- and perhaps even bring back the splendor of video-game consciousness! Venger was truly sent from heaven, but now it was up to the vigilant American citizens/celebrities to really 'capitalize.'
Enter two unlikely media-heroes: Tom Cruise and Ajay Satan. One, a movie superstar and the other a self-proclaimed Internet-blogging democracy-defending 'vigilante.' Cruise had just completed a film about a ruthless American hitman named Vincent roaming the streets of modern-day LA like a stalker/predator and preying on pedestrians' sensibilities about basic urban sanity. Ajay had just written a blog about the pop-culture impact of the proliferation of countless vigilantism-themed comic book heroism stories involving Captain America, Superman, Wonder Woman, Dick Tracy, and Ant-Man. Cruise looked like a video-king, and Ajay was his perfect 'mob psychology gossip foil.' People Magazine did a special article about media propaganda, citing Cruise and Ajay as modern-day 'consumerism-hypnotizing Robin Hoods'
Would the dark-city prevail, or would Utopian cheers once again surface amidst this disappointing flood of consumerism-biased blind Internet and media traffic? U.S. President Donald Trump, once merely a capitalism-baron, suggested that media was changing the way we conceived of 'social justice dialogue' (e.g., The People's Court). Cruise and Ajay would be canonized and immortalized as 'mercantilism-motivating modernism prophets,' and Cruise used the 'hip spotlight' to hype his involvement with the populism-stirring Church of Scientology. Meanwhile, Lucifer (the adversary of God) noted all this and remarked eerily, "Venger the Unicorn (not a human being!) was the spirit who revolutionized 'anti-Orwellian aesthetics'!"
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Signing off,
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Paradise on Earth was supposed to be about celebrities and incredible virtual information-superhighway configurations, but instead, capitalism/consumerism had driven the world towards a state of fortune-minded urbanites. Gone was the concept of networking and working from home while on the islands of Tahiti or Fiji; instead people meditated on the glory of NYC and LA. Instead of a Tom Cruise theme-park, we would see a factory-labor themed national holiday emerging in the new 'dark-city.'
This new metaphysical 'reality' was based upon the imagination of (arguably) Isaac Asimov and George Orwell and to a lesser-degree Ray Bradbury, but who could've imagined that our modernism fantasies about the incredible scope and scale of urbanization and pure commercial ambition (i.e., Wall Street) would effectively construct a 'money-gluttony' Behemoth we could liberally refer to as 'Babylon.' This dark-city was built on stone cold gray cement and countless chips and wires and was disattached from the child-like daydreams of Utopia we'd seen in the early days of radio.
Fortunately, a magical unicorn named Venger saved the day with his incredible horn of magic and wondrous rainbow-colored dripping mane. Venger was pure white and could fly, and he was piercing the very jaded soul of modern urbanization-related spiritual claustrophobia, and writers and comic book artists wrote about him, wondering if his magic horn would literally destroy the overbearing influence of 'Big Brother' and shatter the dark-cylinder of monotonous routine consumerism --- and perhaps even bring back the splendor of video-game consciousness! Venger was truly sent from heaven, but now it was up to the vigilant American citizens/celebrities to really 'capitalize.'
Enter two unlikely media-heroes: Tom Cruise and Ajay Satan. One, a movie superstar and the other a self-proclaimed Internet-blogging democracy-defending 'vigilante.' Cruise had just completed a film about a ruthless American hitman named Vincent roaming the streets of modern-day LA like a stalker/predator and preying on pedestrians' sensibilities about basic urban sanity. Ajay had just written a blog about the pop-culture impact of the proliferation of countless vigilantism-themed comic book heroism stories involving Captain America, Superman, Wonder Woman, Dick Tracy, and Ant-Man. Cruise looked like a video-king, and Ajay was his perfect 'mob psychology gossip foil.' People Magazine did a special article about media propaganda, citing Cruise and Ajay as modern-day 'consumerism-hypnotizing Robin Hoods'
Would the dark-city prevail, or would Utopian cheers once again surface amidst this disappointing flood of consumerism-biased blind Internet and media traffic? U.S. President Donald Trump, once merely a capitalism-baron, suggested that media was changing the way we conceived of 'social justice dialogue' (e.g., The People's Court). Cruise and Ajay would be canonized and immortalized as 'mercantilism-motivating modernism prophets,' and Cruise used the 'hip spotlight' to hype his involvement with the populism-stirring Church of Scientology. Meanwhile, Lucifer (the adversary of God) noted all this and remarked eerily, "Venger the Unicorn (not a human being!) was the spirit who revolutionized 'anti-Orwellian aesthetics'!"
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