- Sep 22, 2013
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Does commerce/capitalism remind you of crime or cravings?
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Airline passengers enjoyed playing card-games and drinking vodka on commercial flights from the East to the West and vice-versa. Airline companies had become quite lucrative, and Amsterdam's liberal policies towards marijuana had created quite a stir when the U.S. states of Colorado and California began debating about medical marijuana legalese, and suddenly, tourism to Amsterdam boomed (after a while), and KLM (Dutch airlines) was suddenly hot. Such is the casino game of commerce in the modern world.
All kinds of bright and beautiful women signed up to be stewardesses for KLM. These KLM stewardesses would be 'diplomats' of a modernized consumerism/commerce. Wall Street and the European Union had replaced George Washington and Camelot, so travellers/pedestrians were thinking about the comforts of travel and the guarantees of safe shopping. Consumerism was the new 'aesthetic' and the new idols/heroes were Michael Jackson, Steve Jobs, and Dan Brown --- figures who delivered intellectual stimulation...on screens! KLM stewardesses were hostesses on commercial passenger flights from Europe to America which featured in-flight Hollywood (USA) movie-entertainment and of course KLM stewardesses discreetly distributing opium. Was this merely capitalism or was it also pageantry?
Any drugworld connoisseur will tell you that opium is a high-demand narcotic which can be smoked or processed into the more trendy and addictive rendition --- heroin. KLM stewardesses working in this 'era' were no strangers to heroin/opium, but only smokable and ingested opium was distributed on commercial passenger flights. One KLM stewardess named Elsa was sure that all this commercial activity would spawn a new terrible disease, since passengers/consumers were basically exploiting all kinds of modern conveniences simply because they were available. Elsa was wise, and she surmised this new 'disease' would create abnormal levels of labor-conscious perspiration. She wondered if opium was suddenly a new wonder-element/substance (like gold or mint!).
All passenger flights on KLM assure their travellers with detailed pictures and instructions about how to navigate/conduct themselves on flights and during emergencies. These 'instruction-cards' were quick training descriptions that reminded travellers of the professionalism of the flight-crew and KLM's commitment to hospitality and safety. No one would figure that a KLM stewardess would be involved in opium distribution on such passenger flights, but then again, quite a few travellers/tourists boarded these planes excited about new age consumerism-related amenities and 'conveniences' (such as in-flight euphoria and candy).
After the 'Opium KLM' fever took hold across the globe and became an underground 'sensation' the fashion/fragrance company YSL (Yves Saint-Laurent) decided to issue a provocative new fragrance simply called Opium. This was not unlike Calvin Klein's 'waif-perfume' fashion/marketing campaign (e.g., Kate Moss) during the 1980s-1990s. Only YSL's Opium came in a mature box and bottle and without any special 'nifty' TV/radio-ads like Calvin Klein offered. No, YSL's Opium was simply what it seemed to be --- a testament of modern consumerism flair. So who would govern/supervise all this 'mall madness' (and the legions of crime-glorifying pulp-writers looking for a modern Billy the Kid)?
Americans loved the capitalism-daydream real-estate fantasy board-game Monopoly (Parker Brothers) which featured multiple players competing to see who could gain more profitable investment-based properties and build upon them in ways that would create effective taxation dominions (perfectly legal!). Monopoly soon became a popular iPhone video-game app, and countless consumers travelling on KLM played Monopoly while in transit. It was a capitalism 'code-word' for commercial playfulness (not unlike how post-Civil War 'Reconstruction' became a 'code-word' for political grief). Would consumerism create its own 'aesthetic' (for scholars and artists alike)?
GOD: I worry about Elsa's moral health.
SATAN: Commerce has made transit rather intriguing.
GOD: There's a difference between storytelling and indulgence.
SATAN: Everyone wants a 'James Bond of the skies.'
GOD: Don't these stewardesses have an obligation to be more responsible?
SATAN: No! Commerce creates a 'demand' for frivolity.
GOD: That's the nature of entertainment, but we have to be wary of indulgence.
SATAN: Yes, the stock market crash after the Roaring '20s reminded us of that insight.
GOD: Precisely; you can't simply ignore the oncoming hangover while partying...
SATAN: There's a Burger King in Afghanistan now.
GOD: Sure, but we have to keep 'tabs' on the World Bank for modern capitalism.
SATAN: Yes, there is much potential for division and war.
GOD: Remember the nuclear-crisis with North Korea preceding the PyeongChang Games?
SATAN: Yes, the PyeongChang Olympics reaffirmed ties between North and South (Korea).
GOD: The Trump Administration was overseeing commercial-pacts by North/South (Korea).
SATAN: Do you think commerce and consumerism creates real imagination?
GOD: Sure! Why else would American film-makers make Casino, Celebrity, and Candyman?
SATAN: Yes, all those films symbolize traffic-conscious modernism paranoia.
GOD: Traffic is the signature of commerce, and pacts separate politics from colonialism.
SATAN: Yes! Consumerism is a sort of 'dialogue' but can it 'cure' avarice?
GOD: There will always be an urge to exploit 'cholesterol-culture'(!).
SATAN: Let's consider the medical practicality of 'swimming with sharks.'
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Airline passengers enjoyed playing card-games and drinking vodka on commercial flights from the East to the West and vice-versa. Airline companies had become quite lucrative, and Amsterdam's liberal policies towards marijuana had created quite a stir when the U.S. states of Colorado and California began debating about medical marijuana legalese, and suddenly, tourism to Amsterdam boomed (after a while), and KLM (Dutch airlines) was suddenly hot. Such is the casino game of commerce in the modern world.
All kinds of bright and beautiful women signed up to be stewardesses for KLM. These KLM stewardesses would be 'diplomats' of a modernized consumerism/commerce. Wall Street and the European Union had replaced George Washington and Camelot, so travellers/pedestrians were thinking about the comforts of travel and the guarantees of safe shopping. Consumerism was the new 'aesthetic' and the new idols/heroes were Michael Jackson, Steve Jobs, and Dan Brown --- figures who delivered intellectual stimulation...on screens! KLM stewardesses were hostesses on commercial passenger flights from Europe to America which featured in-flight Hollywood (USA) movie-entertainment and of course KLM stewardesses discreetly distributing opium. Was this merely capitalism or was it also pageantry?
Any drugworld connoisseur will tell you that opium is a high-demand narcotic which can be smoked or processed into the more trendy and addictive rendition --- heroin. KLM stewardesses working in this 'era' were no strangers to heroin/opium, but only smokable and ingested opium was distributed on commercial passenger flights. One KLM stewardess named Elsa was sure that all this commercial activity would spawn a new terrible disease, since passengers/consumers were basically exploiting all kinds of modern conveniences simply because they were available. Elsa was wise, and she surmised this new 'disease' would create abnormal levels of labor-conscious perspiration. She wondered if opium was suddenly a new wonder-element/substance (like gold or mint!).
All passenger flights on KLM assure their travellers with detailed pictures and instructions about how to navigate/conduct themselves on flights and during emergencies. These 'instruction-cards' were quick training descriptions that reminded travellers of the professionalism of the flight-crew and KLM's commitment to hospitality and safety. No one would figure that a KLM stewardess would be involved in opium distribution on such passenger flights, but then again, quite a few travellers/tourists boarded these planes excited about new age consumerism-related amenities and 'conveniences' (such as in-flight euphoria and candy).
After the 'Opium KLM' fever took hold across the globe and became an underground 'sensation' the fashion/fragrance company YSL (Yves Saint-Laurent) decided to issue a provocative new fragrance simply called Opium. This was not unlike Calvin Klein's 'waif-perfume' fashion/marketing campaign (e.g., Kate Moss) during the 1980s-1990s. Only YSL's Opium came in a mature box and bottle and without any special 'nifty' TV/radio-ads like Calvin Klein offered. No, YSL's Opium was simply what it seemed to be --- a testament of modern consumerism flair. So who would govern/supervise all this 'mall madness' (and the legions of crime-glorifying pulp-writers looking for a modern Billy the Kid)?
Americans loved the capitalism-daydream real-estate fantasy board-game Monopoly (Parker Brothers) which featured multiple players competing to see who could gain more profitable investment-based properties and build upon them in ways that would create effective taxation dominions (perfectly legal!). Monopoly soon became a popular iPhone video-game app, and countless consumers travelling on KLM played Monopoly while in transit. It was a capitalism 'code-word' for commercial playfulness (not unlike how post-Civil War 'Reconstruction' became a 'code-word' for political grief). Would consumerism create its own 'aesthetic' (for scholars and artists alike)?
GOD: I worry about Elsa's moral health.
SATAN: Commerce has made transit rather intriguing.
GOD: There's a difference between storytelling and indulgence.
SATAN: Everyone wants a 'James Bond of the skies.'
GOD: Don't these stewardesses have an obligation to be more responsible?
SATAN: No! Commerce creates a 'demand' for frivolity.
GOD: That's the nature of entertainment, but we have to be wary of indulgence.
SATAN: Yes, the stock market crash after the Roaring '20s reminded us of that insight.
GOD: Precisely; you can't simply ignore the oncoming hangover while partying...
SATAN: There's a Burger King in Afghanistan now.
GOD: Sure, but we have to keep 'tabs' on the World Bank for modern capitalism.
SATAN: Yes, there is much potential for division and war.
GOD: Remember the nuclear-crisis with North Korea preceding the PyeongChang Games?
SATAN: Yes, the PyeongChang Olympics reaffirmed ties between North and South (Korea).
GOD: The Trump Administration was overseeing commercial-pacts by North/South (Korea).
SATAN: Do you think commerce and consumerism creates real imagination?
GOD: Sure! Why else would American film-makers make Casino, Celebrity, and Candyman?
SATAN: Yes, all those films symbolize traffic-conscious modernism paranoia.
GOD: Traffic is the signature of commerce, and pacts separate politics from colonialism.
SATAN: Yes! Consumerism is a sort of 'dialogue' but can it 'cure' avarice?
GOD: There will always be an urge to exploit 'cholesterol-culture'(!).
SATAN: Let's consider the medical practicality of 'swimming with sharks.'
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