The Ideal Man

Two alien-robots visit Earth and began to create practical waves designed to promote peaceful sports as a 'cure' to modern anti-imaginarium terrorism.

My New Year's resolution is to retire from short-story writing (which as taken me over!) and to read and study more about modernism-relevant anti-terrorism dialogue in the media, so I had to offer up one last democracy-vignette.

This omen-yarn was inspired by the sports-terrorism negotiation film Munich (Eric Bana).

Cheers (signing off),

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Two alien robots from the A.I. planet of Cybertron landed on Earth's moon and began observing human behavior using their advanced spy-beams. These two robots were Cyclonus, a cunning jet-fighter warrior, and Agus, a shrewd space-pilot and marksman. Cyclonus and Agus were particularly intrigued by humans were negotiating globalization rhetoric in the 21st Century amidst the background of anti-capitalism terrorism (e.g., 9/11, Munich '72). Cyclonus and Agus wanted to see if humans could use sports to create globalization contract optimism, since such idealism would certainly facilitate inventive forms of new age human anti-terrorism traffic. Cyclonus and Agus resolved to do some missionary work on Earth, but would their mission be simple?

Cyclonus and Agus adopted personal favorites in the history of world soccer on Earth, superstars who captured the essence of the swiftness and teamwork-elegance characteristic of men's soccer at least! Cyclonus liked the Brazilian 1982 World Cup sage-like midfielder Socrates, while Agus liked the Dutch soccer captain and offense-leader Ruud van Nistelroy. Socrates and Nistelroy captured some of the field-play excitement that drew in countless fans around the world to World Cup soccer tournament games, representing cross-cultural and international commitments to peaceful competitive athletics. This sort of civilization activity represented focus on pro-globalization peace on Earth!

Unfortunately, soccer continued to be firstly, a sport dominated by men around the world, and secondly, it had not become too popular in America, which continued to be the world's 'Big Brother' in commerce and politics (and even capitalism!). Despite the successes of the US women's national soccer team at the women's World Cup soccer tournament, the soccer superstars from men's soccer in the history of the world sport drew fans mostly from Europe, South America, and Africa, and Americans continued to watch mostly baseball (MLB) and football (NFL), which were very different from soccer! Cyclonus and Agus realized that the aesthetic appeal and media focus on international soccer created gorgeous displays of fanfare-glitter but was constricted to the beauty of non-American (e.g., European) flowery.

This was an odd fact that despite soccer was the most popular 'world sport' among sports-fans on other continents, it simply did not become too popular socially in America. Americans loved football and baseball and movies about football and baseball, so Hollywood (USA) movie superstars such as Tom Cruise made sports-culture films featuring magical sequences from football-play and baseball-play. How would Americans coordinate their dominance over the commercial media worldwide with the glaring fact that world soccer was simply largely 'overlooked' on American soil? Soccer was popular around the world, while football and baseball were popular only in America! After all, world soccer dialogue would be crucial to Cyclonus and Agus for their special mission to evaluate humanity's globalized views on anti-media terrorism!

Meanwhile, Agus and Cyclonus decided to adopt human appearance and visited Earth and took up residence in America. Agus posed as an Algerian prince working part-time as a Manhattan male-nanny, while Cyclonus posed as an French-Arabian prince visiting America to evaluate commercial investments in corporation-endorsed world soccer teams and club-teams (UEFA). Cyclonus and Agus noted that Hollywood (USA) movie superstar Tom Cruise was the pronounced commercial/media spokesman of the iconic wrist-watch company Rolex. There was big money in modern (21st Century) aesthetic traffic!

AGUS: I like my identity as an Algerian-American nanny in Manhattan!

CYCLONUS: I'm sure you enjoy watching television with your kids.

AGUS: We enjoy Fisher-Price toy commercials as well as video-game ads.
CYCLONUS: Video-games are huge in America and around the world.

AGUS: It's peculiar that soccer video-games are popular in America.
CYCLONUS: Extremely popular; ironic, since the sport itself is not popular (in America)!

AGUS: Are you developing video-game market dialogue with your commercial work?
CYCLONUS: I'm negotiating contracts between Microsoft and Konami.

AGUS: Why?
CYCLONUS: Konami's an iconic video-game company working with Saudi Arabia.
AGUS: And Microsoft?
CYCLONUS: Microsoft is a software-giant developing successful video-game marketing (Xbox).
AGUS: This commercial inquiry regarding Arabian Konami and Xbox-markets reference soccer?
CYCLONUS: Yes; kids love soccer video-games, and that's an 'angle' to promote the world sport.

AGUS: So we'll use 'youth-marketing' to create a lifestyle aesthetic conducive to peace-politics.
CYCLONUS: That would work well with our pro-Earth anti-terrorism mission, right?

Agus and Cyclonus decided to use their resources on Earth to invest in the marketing of Disney wrist-watches to kids around the world. Disney toys, costumes, merchandise, theme-parks (in America), and movies had become known around the world, and Disney wrist-watches paralleled Rolex wrist-watches (advertised by American movie-star Tom Cruise!) in their aesthetic influence over 'lifestyle' capitalism-consciousness in the 21st Century! Agus and Cyclonus therefore considered Disney wrist-watches comparable to 'ideological' toys, perhaps relevant to their peace-politics mission facilitating pro-globalization oriented capitalism/consumerism rhetoric. They realized commerce could perhaps strongly thwart terrorism.

AGUS: We'll hype soccer video-games and Disney watches!

CYCLONUS: We'll encourage human kids to think idealistically about capitalism.

AGUS: This will parallel adult-world dialogue about anti-capitalism terrorism.

CYCLONUS: The terrorism at the Munich Olympics awakened humanity to the reality of troubles.

AGUS: Globalization has been a real challenge to human civilization.

CYCLONUS: When kids play soccer video-games in America, world sports are hyped!
AGUS: That's the idea.
CYCLONUS: The cure to terrorism may ironically come in the form of design.

Agus and Cyclonus were rightly shrewd in their assessment of the devastation on globalization created by anti-capitalism terrorism incidents such as 9/11 and anti-democratic incidents such as the Munich '72 terrorism. When social activities were thwarted by terrorism, the media had to present images of anti-traffic paranoia in modern times, and this threatened globalization rhetoric.

AGUS: Kids shouldn't think rebelliousness is hip.

CYCLONUS: They should feel that toys remind them of sanity!

AGUS: They should believe sports encourage teamwork among adults.

CYCLONUS: Parents shouldn't buy kids toy-guns and neglect governance-talk.

AGUS: That's the idea!

AGUS: Let's visit the campus of Georgetown University.

CYCLONUS: Why?

AGUS: Their men's soccer team is quite popular.
CYCLONUS: We'll take photos of the soccer games with our iPhones.

AGUS: We'll upload these photos for an Internet-blog about athletics.

CYCLONUS: Yes, we'll address how athletics counters the malady of misanthropy.

AGUS: True; misanthropy is the essence of anti-academic terrorism, right?

CYCLONUS: Maybe Georgetown students play soccer video-games.

AGUS: High-school and collegiate soccer are surprisingly well-financed in America.

CYCLONUS: Good.

Agus and Cyclonus attended Georgetown University Hoyas men's soccer team games and noted the athletic prowess and excitement among the athletes and the fans in the stadium! They took pictures of the exciting games on their handy-dandy iPhones for their missionary Internet-blog. They noted that despite world soccer not becoming socially iconic in America (as compared to football and baseball!), high-school and especially collegiate soccer (e.g., Hoyas men's soccer) in America were considered high-marks of social design. They wondered how this would translate into the popularity of soccer video-games in America. Would Hoyas college soccer impact Americans' views on anti-media terrorism?

AGUS: We'll place a photo of an American youngster hyping a soccer video-game on our blog!

CYCLONUS: We'll reference toys in the discussion of media and global consumerism.

AGUS: We can talk about Olympics-themed video-games.
CYCLONUS: We can address how these modern toys promote anti-terrorism education among kids.

AGUS: We can think about how terrorism can be 'medicated' by advertisements.

CYCLONUS: Then, we'll return to Cybertron.

Cyclonus and Agus returned to Cybertron, confident that Americans' development of consumerism/media and the rest of humanity's investments in pro-sports peace and anti-capitalism terrorism dialogue would facilitate profitable globalization rhetoric in modern times. They concluded that human civilization didn't warrant colonization or revolution and had the necessary academic resources to use social activity (e.g., soccer!) to distinguish the incendiary flames of misanthropy. They believed humans on Earth had the potential to become 'ideal' priests.

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