Kitana/Jade: Quarantine-DNA

A Story by Abishai100

The two Outworld sorceresses (Kitana and Jade) debate about the contours of human civilization media/consumerism during the Coronavirus quarantine dream!

Here's a fun comic book oriented quarantine capitalism vignette about two fictional folk-sorceresses (Kitana and Jade) debating about the dioramic intrigue of modern media-tech contours during Coronavirus quarantine democracy, which I hope you'll read and like!

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On the edge of a new wilderness at the turn of the new millennium, great sociocultural tides around the world were drawing people towards the splendors of media and technology driven consumerism. The Big '80s explosion of capitalism and Wall Street had turned into the new millennium enthusiasm towards NASDAQ, Microsoft, Starbucks, and OPEC. Commerce was so global that politics demanded new kinds of finance-driven leaders, such as capitalism-baron Donald Trump. Amidst all this commerce flowery, there were dangerous undercurrents of subversive thinking, terrorism, lifestyle sloth and avarice, and moral complacency about the conveniences that came with this new brand of media-delivered shopping. Housewives felt allured by the draw of on-screen gold, and working husbands wondered if catering to fantasies about affairs with office-personnel and secretaries would bring them to some exciting feeling of capitalism escapism. There was lust combined with politics, and Starbucks coffee consciousness was not simply 'find your cup of vigor' and diligence.

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Because of all this new age intrigue, two sorceresses from another dimension were drawn towards Earth to offer their special input and debate with each other about the symbolic significance of this Earth civilization vibrancy created by globalized capital and capitalism. These two sorceresses were the blade-fan weapon wielding princess-warrior Kitana and the more rogue gypsy-warrior woman Jade who wielded a baton-weapon. Kitana wore a blue ninja outfit, while Jade donned a green one, and they both had served in their dimension called Outworld as ruling figures over a dominion commanded by their mother/step-mother Sindel, the white-haired witch. Outworld was a realm of great intrigue and warfare, and Kitana and Jade were sent to Earth by Sindel who was using her crystal-ball to forecast predictions about the outcomes of human civilization capitalism in this new era. Sindel wanted her two daughters to evaluate human capital and how consumerism created both vibrancy and vice. Sindel knew her daughters were rivalrous with each other and would use their wits to create illuminating and insightful debates.

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Kitana and Jade arrived on Earth and began spying on human civilization from Earth's moon. They set up a spy-station and used their radar-beams and video-recorders to monitor all the goings-on of humanity from the 1980s through the year 2020, when the massive Coronavirus quarantine tribulation forced everyone indoors, making Internet the device for all forms of work, play, and hygienic study. Kitana and Jade noted that the lifestyle excesses and wild social mobilizations and outstandingly unusual political behaviors such as anti-capitalism terrorism had created a sort of strange ingrained sense of biophysical anarchy, which may have given rise to the population absorbing Coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak in 2020. Over 2M people were infected with the Coronavirus, and over 200K deaths were reported around the world in just four short months. However, world leaders were scrambling to create proper quarantine and containment procedures while scientists vigorously created ventilation and vaccination procedures. Fortunately, seers forecasted an eventual subsidence of the outbreak; Kitana and Sindel used this signpost of global intrigue to begin their symbolic debate about human capital/capitalism.

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KITANA: To analyze human civilization, we must dissect capitalism rhetoric.
JADE: Starbucks imagination has led to worldly vanities!
KITANA: How is 9/11 a reflection of Earth disarray?
JADE: Terrorism and capitalism-angst has bred political intrigue!
KITANA: I think of my blade-fan weapon and think of socialized propaganda.
JADE: I think of my baton-weapon and think of worldly psychology!
KITANA: Do you think capitalism-baron Donald Trump is the new Eisenhower?
JADE: It does seem that Trump's America is a form of socialized ideology!
KITANA: Can capitalism really breed ideology?
JADE: Capitalism is a system of normalized competition and creates rhetoric.
KITANA: Is competition really rhetoric or a veiled form of sanctioned ambition?

JADE: There can be rhetoric with ambition if it comes with purified teamwork.
KITANA: Maybe that's why sports-events such as the World Cup symbolize optimism!
JADE: Yes, and the Olympics too.
KITANA: Americans love sports and sports films and enjoy sports videos during the quarantine.
JADE: Yes, the Coronavirus quarantine experience creates views on indoor media meditation!
KITANA: Perhaps humans are using media to learn about the reality of yearning.
JADE: Yearning can create forms of vice and lust if not tempered by philosophy.
KITANA: Does capitalism/consumerism really offer room for great philosophy?
JADE: Yes, I argue it does; if we look at McDonald's we see forms of great commerce marketing.
KITANA: Yes, but how does commerce marketing coordinate with lifestyle humility?
KADE: Well, the advent of colorful computing tech-toys such as the iPad encourages educational play.
KITANA: I suppose young folks on Earth enjoy using the iPad to surf the Internet like children!
JADE: Yes, and the user-friendly features of the iPad and other modern tech-toys symbolize daydreams.
KITANA: So, consumerism and the tech-toys linked to it create kinds of playful socialized activity.
JADE: This socialization is highlighted during the Coronavirus quarantine, as people praise media ads!
KITANA: Yes, such media ads, about, say, Apple products and Burger King remind many of capital joys.
JADE: Sure; such lifestyle joys represent 'arms' of civilization labor to the modern man on Earth!
KITANA: Suppose then that a Lakers-Celtics basketball fan is watching classic games on YouTube during quarantine.
JADE: Right; this hypothetical fan would appreciate how indoor media creates consumerism imagination.
KITANA: Sure; after all, sports-entertainment is a key sector of human civilization media...and consumerism!
JADE: Correct, sister; in fact, sports-ads and sports-merchandise are popular online purchases during quarantine.
KITANA: Right; fans like purchasing classic game videos and sports video-games for indoor fun during quarantine.
JADE: This media-driven indoor life-consciousness breeds important thoughts about temperance...and avarice.
KITANA: That's really what we're debating about, sister; this duality between temperance and avarice!
JADE: We must take care to note that this duality between temperance and avarice is rhetoric-dependent.
KITANA: What do you mean?
JADE: Well, consumerism is convenience-based, but it promotes kinds of activity edification.
KITANA: Such as?
JADE: Such as kids' cooking-set toys, which promote imaginations about grocery-shopping and recipe-sharing.

KITANA: Recipes are shared rather liberally online during the Coronavirus quarantine experience, no?
JADE: Right; you can go to Cooking.com or FoodNetwork.com and share or view recipes for upload.

KITANA: This sharing of recipes online seems to signify an ironic contrasting behavioral socialized intelligence!
JADE: True; it somehow contrasts the otherwise 'mindless' drinking of traffic-promoting Starbucks coffee.
KITANA: Perhaps then the Internet is creating a way to temper traffic euphoria with social meditation!
JADE: Right; if you're under Coronavirus quarantine and share recipes online indoors, you're thinking like an adult.

KITANA: So this kind of socialization facilitation is necessary for proper consumerism rhetoric for quarantine sanity!
JADE: I agree; to create temperance in times of great social flurry, you need ways to celebrate basic teamwork.
KITANA: How then can online recipe-sharing and the 'teamwork' it promotes translate to capitalism sanity?

JADE: Perhaps that hypothetical Lakers-Celtics basketball fan you mentioned meditates on media branching!

KITANA: Branching?

JADE: Yes, as different markets and groups such as Lakers fans and Celtics fans use media, humans praise grouping.

KITANA: So this 'grouping theory' of consumerism-traffic and capitalism perspective offers 'democratic' thinking!
JADE: Precisely; such 'democratic' thinking is not unlike pedestrian access to political meetings.

KITANA: Are you referring to C-SPAN?
JADE: Yes, C-SPAN is an American television network offering pedestrians media access to political activity!
KITANA: So forms of media access to shared symbolic social activity remind us of the virtue of networks.
JADE: I would argue that's the reason why Americans seem to favor media access to EWTN (Catholic-TV)!
KITANA: I suppose that's true; I mean, media access to religious-group television during quarantine creates praise.
JADE: Exactly, sister; to remember temperance then in this time of great flurry, we must think of social space!
KITANA: Is that why institutions such as Microsoft have invested so heavily in consumerism tech?
JADE: Yes, and it's why we should report to our mother Sindel of the splendor of CatlTech credit-cards on Earth!
KITANA: I agree; let's tell mother that human civilization capitalism has created values-thinking during quarantine.

JADE: Cool.

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"Money is everything" (Ecclesiastes)

{Kitana & Jade}