Cyclonus/Pazuzu: Entertainment/Exorcism [Consumerism Figurines]

Abishai100

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Capitalism is global now, and consumerism has become consciousness. We celebrate shopping on this Black Friday, the annual shopping-ritual day following Thanksgiving in America. However, just one year ago today, on Black Friday, ISIS fundamentalist-terrorists killed 300 Sufi Muslims in an Egyptian mosque. Was this terrorist-attack an extension of the gestures sent by fundamentalist-Muslims on 9/11, when they destroyed the World Trade Center in NYC?

Since capitalism has all kinds of critics, we don't want to over-speculate on who exactly would want to dismantle consumerism-consciousness, but we do appreciate the psycho-sociological processes that create commercial 'figurines' that become 'consumerism avatars' --- e.g., Richie Rich, Lucky the Leprechaun, Toucan Sam, Tony the Tiger, etc. These fictional 'characters' are used to 'hype' consumerism/capitalism in American culture/society, but do terrorists despise such avatar-use?

The film The Exorcist generated lots of social intrigue in America and was the center of intrigue, since it presented a story about a Satanic demon named Pazuzu haunting/possessing the soul of a young American girl living in the D.C. area. The filming created lots of hype and was rumored to have hauntings during production, when actors and producers involved with the handling of the spiritual relics presented in the films and the demonology archaeology cited in the storytelling apparently 'invoked' metaphysical 'jitters.'

Since Hollywood (USA) makes movies about everything it seems and entertainment is part of consumerism, we might consider how the presentation of 'avatars' in cinema and folklore and in brand-marketing contribute to our social consciousness regarding the 'spiritual identification' of symbolic/impactful 'commercial figurines' such as Lucky the Leprechaun.

Is this merely 'consumerism-brainwashing' or perhaps something more complicated like 'spiritual' agony?




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Commerce is built on communication highways and technologies (e.g., eBay), so new age stories present characters/avatars that signify our modern focus on commercial traffic and intelligible marketing/tech such as fictional robots that transform into espionage-geared compact audio cassettes (e.g., Frenzy from Hasbro's Transformers franchise).

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As countless shoppers celebrate consumerism this Black Friday in cities and suburbs across America, we might consider how shopping has reoriented our imagination regarding 'access' to goods and services. Paul Bunyan has become Richie Rich!

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Sports-marketing is key to the entertainment industry in America, and Super Bowl ads comprise a major form of capitalism-revenue for the American economy. That's why we Americans deify Super Bowl winning QB Tom Brady and sports-culture films like Jerry Maguire (Tom Cruise).

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An image of a 'robotic maid' might invoke our imagination about services and products and be used by some commercial American company making a Super Bowl ad about ordering wine online. This is after all the age of stewardship!

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We might want to 'escape' from the claustrophobic hustle-bustle of the modern American city by visiting, say, St. Patrick's Cathedral in NYC during Thanksgiving weekend. Visiting places of worship reminds us of the clarity of spirituality in our modern world of profits and commerce. Is that why ISIS terrorists killed 300 Sufi Muslims in an Egyptian mosque on Black Friday 2017?

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The figurine-image of the demon 'Pazuzu' presented in the iconic demonology-experience film The Exorcist (starring Linda Blair, Ellen Burstyn, and Max Von Sydow) resembles a winged humanoid 'gargoyle' and serves to remind us perhaps that the accessibility of evil in everyday life. In the film, a pries-archaeologist discovers a large stone statue of Pazuzu in the desert and wonders about the 'reach' of such a demon in civilization.

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Since consumerism is a services-and-gratification system, we might think of the tastiness of candy, the seduction of pornography-media, and the toylike designs of gadgets when we 'celebrate' capitalism itself. This makes it rather 'easy' to canonize or even idolize 'relics' of commerce such as Playboy models. Is this kosher?

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Here is my personal candidate for the visage of a 'real-life Pazuzu' --- the fictional A.I. robot Cyclonus from Hasbro's very popular A.I. fantasy-adventure franchise Transformers. Cyclonus is a wolfish 'first-knight' robot of an evil robot army called the Decepticons who try to exert forms of fascism and terror to create dominions of tyranny. Cyclonus is a fighting robot who transforms into a jet-fighter and is basically a wily assassin who serves his master, Galvatron, leader of the Decepticon army. Cyclonus is both pirate-like and ambitious, and his image in various Transformers cartoons and representative marketed Transformers toys (sold in Toys 'R Us stores and on Amazom.com and eBay) reveals our modern age fascination with the 'aesthetics' of piracy and 'spiritual-rape' in capitalism-culture. Is Cyclonus Pazuzu?

{Cyclonus}

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"My name is Cyclonus. I am concerned that American consumers' seemingly obsessive behaviors regarding shopping and fortune-hunting has prompted anti-capitalist terrorists (e.g., ISIS) to make wild rebellious/symbolic gestures such as murdering Sufi Muslims in an Egyptian mosque on Black Friday. Why would ISIS terrorists kill so many of their Muslim brethren on a shopping-day celebrated in America, a nation they seem to despise? Is capitalism driving the world towards commercial madness? Maybe Americans need to market more 'consumerism-figurines' like Lucky the Leprechaun to appreciate the social symbolism surrounding the advertising of shopping-consciousness itself! My name is Cyclonus, and I believe if such 'flaws' in capitalism are not resolved, a complete invasion and subversion of human civilization would be entirely warranted by the commercial 'forces of darkness'. Who can refute this?"

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