- Sep 22, 2013
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This is my best attempt to hoist an optimistic TrumpUSA-billboard, and it's inspired by Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps.
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America was on the cusp of great success. Since the new millennium, the DJIA soared, and Wall Street was on top, and casino-mogul Donald Trump was elected as U.S. President. Trump had gained media-spotlight for his work on the business-recruitment TV show The Apprentice, and now he was the leader of the free-world. Trump was a conservative Republican and he wanted his party to be at the frontlines of new age networking-rhetoric, and when his administration faced its first real test during Labor Day 2017 (a nuclear-missile test crisis involving troublesome nation North Korea), Trump began fortifying commerce-route pacts with neighboring trade-partner South Korea (perhaps in anticipation of the 2018 Winter Games in South Korea!). The popular computer-chain CompUSA went out of business, but 'TrumpUSA' was in full-swing.
American President Bill Clinton was depicted in sarcastic political cartoons enjoying cheeseburgers, so would Trump (another media-face for modernism consumerism 'consciousness') be portrayed eating burgers at White Castle fast-food chains? White Castle was one of several successful American fast-food companies which was exporting chains all over the world (e.g., Burger King in Afghanistan!). Convenience-based consumerism was an 'American hallmark,' and the successes of American computer/software companies (i.e., Apple Computers, Microsoft) reflected a modern commercial interest in 'pedestrian-aesthetics toys.'
Americans walked into fast-food chains and carried-out boxes/packages of conveniently prepared (and FDA-approved!) lunches and dinners. Consumerism was considered a lifestyle, and nutritionists had to step up and play a greater role in advising the balance between consumption and digestion more than ever! Because 'pulp-fiction' was so popular now in cinema (as Hollywood was making countless vigilantism-fantasy comics-adapted films such as Iron Man and Marvel's Avengers), the Trump Administration wanted to keep pace with the American pedestrian's newfound fascination with 'creative junk-food.' Trump had a sneaky suspicion that Satan (the Devil, adversary of God and mankind) was watching all these 'modernism developments.'
American youngsters loved video-games such as Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat and Madden NFL. These video-games enabled players to use well-known athletes or fancy inventive 'warrior-avatars' (e.g., M. Bison, Scorpion, E. Honda, etc.) in artificially-constructed competitive scenarios, so of course, they were symbolic of a modern pseudo-obsession with capitalism-ethos. Competition was the signature of capitalism-theory, and sales of video-games and systems (PlayStation, Xbox) went through the roof, making consumer-electronics stores such as Best Buy emerge as titans (rising out of the ashes of the 'disintegration' of older chains such as CompUSA and Circuit City!).
GOD: The World Bank and Security Council are sanity-safeguards.
SATAN: Modernism is fraught with traffic-challenges!
GOD: That's why we appreciate films like Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps.
SATAN: I prefer paranoia-films such as Dark City and Ghost in the Machine.
GOD: The Trump Administration will be responsible for 'cleansing' consumerism.
SATAN: 'TrumpUSA' has faced countless street-protests.
GOD: It's like the Los Angeles Race Riots of 1992...developing modernism!
SATAN: It's tedious and reminiscent of child-labor and the early days of TR.
GOD: Roosevelt worked with China and the Open-Door Policy (immigration).
SATAN: Trump will have to work with South Korea and Canada/Mexico.
GOD: Yes, Trump has the opportunity to become a finance-diplomat!
SATAN: Control of continents (e.g., European Union) is a business-strategy.
GOD: This could all become boring...unless we talk about avarice.
SATAN: What's Wall Street without stockbroker/tycoon ghost-stories?
GOD: Remember the 2017 Las Vegas shooting?
SATAN: What about the countless high-school shootings (e.g., Columbine)?
GOD: Maybe my archangel Michael should protect the World Bank.
SATAN: I say we encourage Hollywood to make more movies about money.
Cheerleaders in the NFL and stewardesses for European airlines were official 'handmaidens' of modernism, since media made sports-marketing symbolic of commerce and merchandising and general networking-cheerfulness and fanfare and consumerism hoisted the tourism industry as a new 'vanguard' of culture-exchange. Miami Dolphins (NFL) cheerleaders and Air Lingus (Ireland) stewardesses proudly wore their green/aquamarine outfits and cheered on all the values of this modern world of 'TrumpUSA,' European Union financing, island travel and resorts, and of course media-images (e.g., movies) about profiteers (and pirates!). Were these NFL cheerleaders and airline stewardesses angelic messengers of the spirit of enterprise or ominous sirens of commercial frivolity?
I was born in India to Hindu parents and came to America where I became a U.S. citizen. I attended the prestigious Ivy League school Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire), where I studied Cognitive Science. I conduct a Judeo-Christian sabbatical under the tutelage of my father during which I construct Christian HTML websites and post stories/ideas/images on the Internet about modern Christianity-oriented evangelism, business/ethics, and pedestrian-traffic 'ghost-stories.' Is the modern age about capitalism or bank-robbery? This is the question we 'idealists' want to ask President Trump and the World Bank(!).
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America was on the cusp of great success. Since the new millennium, the DJIA soared, and Wall Street was on top, and casino-mogul Donald Trump was elected as U.S. President. Trump had gained media-spotlight for his work on the business-recruitment TV show The Apprentice, and now he was the leader of the free-world. Trump was a conservative Republican and he wanted his party to be at the frontlines of new age networking-rhetoric, and when his administration faced its first real test during Labor Day 2017 (a nuclear-missile test crisis involving troublesome nation North Korea), Trump began fortifying commerce-route pacts with neighboring trade-partner South Korea (perhaps in anticipation of the 2018 Winter Games in South Korea!). The popular computer-chain CompUSA went out of business, but 'TrumpUSA' was in full-swing.
American President Bill Clinton was depicted in sarcastic political cartoons enjoying cheeseburgers, so would Trump (another media-face for modernism consumerism 'consciousness') be portrayed eating burgers at White Castle fast-food chains? White Castle was one of several successful American fast-food companies which was exporting chains all over the world (e.g., Burger King in Afghanistan!). Convenience-based consumerism was an 'American hallmark,' and the successes of American computer/software companies (i.e., Apple Computers, Microsoft) reflected a modern commercial interest in 'pedestrian-aesthetics toys.'
Americans walked into fast-food chains and carried-out boxes/packages of conveniently prepared (and FDA-approved!) lunches and dinners. Consumerism was considered a lifestyle, and nutritionists had to step up and play a greater role in advising the balance between consumption and digestion more than ever! Because 'pulp-fiction' was so popular now in cinema (as Hollywood was making countless vigilantism-fantasy comics-adapted films such as Iron Man and Marvel's Avengers), the Trump Administration wanted to keep pace with the American pedestrian's newfound fascination with 'creative junk-food.' Trump had a sneaky suspicion that Satan (the Devil, adversary of God and mankind) was watching all these 'modernism developments.'
American youngsters loved video-games such as Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat and Madden NFL. These video-games enabled players to use well-known athletes or fancy inventive 'warrior-avatars' (e.g., M. Bison, Scorpion, E. Honda, etc.) in artificially-constructed competitive scenarios, so of course, they were symbolic of a modern pseudo-obsession with capitalism-ethos. Competition was the signature of capitalism-theory, and sales of video-games and systems (PlayStation, Xbox) went through the roof, making consumer-electronics stores such as Best Buy emerge as titans (rising out of the ashes of the 'disintegration' of older chains such as CompUSA and Circuit City!).
GOD: The World Bank and Security Council are sanity-safeguards.
SATAN: Modernism is fraught with traffic-challenges!
GOD: That's why we appreciate films like Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps.
SATAN: I prefer paranoia-films such as Dark City and Ghost in the Machine.
GOD: The Trump Administration will be responsible for 'cleansing' consumerism.
SATAN: 'TrumpUSA' has faced countless street-protests.
GOD: It's like the Los Angeles Race Riots of 1992...developing modernism!
SATAN: It's tedious and reminiscent of child-labor and the early days of TR.
GOD: Roosevelt worked with China and the Open-Door Policy (immigration).
SATAN: Trump will have to work with South Korea and Canada/Mexico.
GOD: Yes, Trump has the opportunity to become a finance-diplomat!
SATAN: Control of continents (e.g., European Union) is a business-strategy.
GOD: This could all become boring...unless we talk about avarice.
SATAN: What's Wall Street without stockbroker/tycoon ghost-stories?
GOD: Remember the 2017 Las Vegas shooting?
SATAN: What about the countless high-school shootings (e.g., Columbine)?
GOD: Maybe my archangel Michael should protect the World Bank.
SATAN: I say we encourage Hollywood to make more movies about money.
Cheerleaders in the NFL and stewardesses for European airlines were official 'handmaidens' of modernism, since media made sports-marketing symbolic of commerce and merchandising and general networking-cheerfulness and fanfare and consumerism hoisted the tourism industry as a new 'vanguard' of culture-exchange. Miami Dolphins (NFL) cheerleaders and Air Lingus (Ireland) stewardesses proudly wore their green/aquamarine outfits and cheered on all the values of this modern world of 'TrumpUSA,' European Union financing, island travel and resorts, and of course media-images (e.g., movies) about profiteers (and pirates!). Were these NFL cheerleaders and airline stewardesses angelic messengers of the spirit of enterprise or ominous sirens of commercial frivolity?
I was born in India to Hindu parents and came to America where I became a U.S. citizen. I attended the prestigious Ivy League school Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire), where I studied Cognitive Science. I conduct a Judeo-Christian sabbatical under the tutelage of my father during which I construct Christian HTML websites and post stories/ideas/images on the Internet about modern Christianity-oriented evangelism, business/ethics, and pedestrian-traffic 'ghost-stories.' Is the modern age about capitalism or bank-robbery? This is the question we 'idealists' want to ask President Trump and the World Bank(!).
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