Yale/Donruss: American Royalty

An illustrious American prince and student at Yale University purchases a vintage Roberto Alomar Donruss Rookie Card at mint-value and discovers it's haunted by an omen from Rajasthan!

Ethan had been a terrific student at Yale University and purchased in his junior-year, a mint-value Roberto Alomar Donruss American baseball-card. Ethan's sacred baseball card was haunted by the terrible omen of a greed enhancing collector's consciousness that originated in the Indian area of Rajasthan. This omen affected how people felt after looking at the face and back of the card itself. It had true hypnotic power over anyone who happened to gaze at its simple classic sports fan-design. This was the new Orwellianism --- a flurry to collect things of consumer/media value as 'tokens' of sophistication. Fortunately, there was much imagination surrounding even the evaluation of Rajasthani consumerism.

The Donruss card Ethan carried in his vault in his dorm-room at Yale was considered to be some day worth over $1 million. For some reason, the fanfare intrigue surrounding the ethnic-minority player Roberto Alomar (of the San Diego Padres!) involving his work as a possible U.S. spy (field-intelligence anti-terrorism agent). Since TIME magazine printed an article about the social value of the Donruss card that Ethan owned, the card radically spiked in statistical sales in the United States. It had become a modern-day phenomenon and began being loosely-compared to the Honus Wagner origin-era baseball card. Ethan was psyched...

Ethan moved to a Swiss cottage after graduating from Yale and began writing his novel about the Donruss card called American Design. Ethan married a beautiful brunette French-Canadian stewardess named Danica in the summer of 2020. He decided to simply ignore the Rajasthani omen surrounding his Donruss card (Roberto Alomar). However, his card felt haunted and when he showed it to others, they were simply hypnotized by it classic design. Ethan wondered if it was simply the mainstream aesthetics of consumerism-token sales that created a 'metaphysical/religious' backlash and spawned a new social celebration of pocket gold.

What no one knew was that Ethan was actually a prince from Rajasthan and wanted to study the Rajasthani superstition lore surrounding the hyping of everyday consumerism/media tokens such as sports fanfare American baseball cards. He discovered while traveling that the Donruss card was said to be endowed with a special aura that inspired the observer to hype its design glow. This was consumerism at its finest. That's why Ethan's Donruss card was considered to be a 'trophy' of capitalism perfection. Would this subvert the dominant paradigms of sales-based religion? Only consumers will decide the answer to this timelessly unusual question about vanity-consciousness. Ethan had become a real American prince, a modern royal. Plus, he loved the Kansas City Royals.