Racer-X

An intriguing racing character involved with political intelligence uses tech and toys to promote new age dolls in Europe!

Here's a colorful democracy parable involving the racing comics-character Racer-X (a figure representing 'Big Brother') from the iconic racing cartoon Speed Racer (adapted into a recent full-length movie)! I'm signing off with this piece, since Racer-X is an ideal avatar for new age dollar thinking and captures my overall interests in anti-Orwellian diction. Thanks for reading,

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Racer-X was from Algeria. He studied at the Ivy League before being recruited by the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency). Racer-X was a perfect race-car driver and became the James Bond of the driven road in Europe, working as a racing spy for American intelligence and trying to help Sinn Fein deal with Protestant-Catholic strife with Parliament and in Northern Ireland. Racer-X dropped out of the CIA and decided to become alone operative for the P-IRA (Provisional Irish Republican Army), deliving underground resources and commanding strike initiatives on British police and military barracks in Belfast. He became an effective underworld shadow.

Racer-X had a perfect yellow sports-car called the Excalibur. He drove that thing on every mission for the IRA as well as for himself. He was a perfect driver. He commanded his car and gripped the road like a magician. He was a real threat and British military had grown to fear this elusive character who worked tirelessly to bring more peaceful ties between the British Protestant majority and the Irish Catholic minority in Northern Ireland. Driving was like democracy to Racer-X, a man of dystopian imagination.

Race-X had only one fear in his heart --- that he'd encourage reckless driving and cause car-accidents among the populace. He didn't want to become a folk-hero of dangerous proportions for this reason. He didn't want to be thought of as a Billy the Kid or Evil Knievel. No, Racer-X wanted to be thought of as a thoughtful revolutionary who inspired ideas regarding democratization of otherwise deadly ideology and rhetoric. He envisioned a day when Northern Ireland soccer games and car races would represent modern European stability through all kinds of social trials such as the Coronavirus quarantine tribulation in 2020. Racer-X wanted to be a champion of modern dollars.

Of course, the world wasn't so idealistic. There were other brands of drivers on the road, drivers who cared about danger, risk, anarchy, terror, mayhem, fantasy, vanity, and of course, pride. Racer-X championed pure spirit in driving, but his rivals and enemies in Europe promoted dangerous consciousness and appreciated stories about complete chaos and the adventure of juvenile risk. Racer-X suddenly became the Big Brother of a modern world filled with dark daredevils.

Of course, the modern world was about technology and media and computing and networks. This was a world of WiFi, HiFi, and Sci-Fi. Everyone cared abou the convenience of home-delivered resources and media networks through advanced tech and toys. Apple Computers and Microsoft had brought the world closer together in a consumer 'grid' and Racer-X didn't want to fall behind and stayed in touch with Sinn Fein (the legal and political arm of the IRA) so the Irish Catholics would remain active participants in this modern environment of technology-driven human decision-making.

One of the big minds of this modern environment was the mad scientist Dr. Hector Hammond. Head of the new computer sciences laboratory at CalTech, Dr. Hammond believed in pure technology and ironically despised the notion that tech should resemble toys and gadgets. He liked the idea of delivering tech-imagination and modern consciousness as wheels of a new age thinking regarding complete capitalism.

Racer-X on the other hand preferred a windows-based delivery of imagination networks. He liked Highlights Magazine for Children which promoted real active outdoor and indoor creativity. Racer-X was an advocate of modern psychiatry.

Racer-X felt his greatest symbolic gadget or toy of the modern world was the classic and iconic Polaroid instant-camera. With this device, he could take and keep instant-photos of events and memories and places and groups and hoist them as timeless imagination symbols of human diarism. The Polaroid became Racer-X's personal dream.

Racer-X kept a glass chess-set which became his ideal symbol of gaming and social networking and politics. With chess, a game of teamwork strategy and motion, Racer-X could champion the modern notion of active and idealized racing. He decided to use his glass chess-set to market the street value of the safety-oriented Volvo road cars for Irish Catholics in Northern Ireland. In other words, this was an engineering mission!

Why did Racer-X care about the grouping features of modern engineered social imagination? Why was he an advocate of team-play? Why, for example, was he fascinated with the 1974 Netherlands men's national soccer team and captain Johan Cruyff who championed the advanced team-soccer play style of 'Total Football' (a strategy developed to forward motions of rotational leadership in offense)? Racer-X was an advocate of modern socialization aesthetics and therefore cared about the design of new age democracy.

Racer-X adopted the vintage video-game avatar Mega-Man (Capcom), a symbol of new age thinking regarding the heroics of technology use for democratic purposes. Mega-Man fought the evil Dr. Wily who cared about tech-delivery for the sake of power and prestige. Mega-Man was the tech rendition of Captain America!

To be an advocate of the modern Facebook oriented social network consciousness, one had to embrace the ideals of modernism as they pertained to the relevance of new age fashion and trends. You had to be immersed in the world of MTV and Google and Bloomberg and Nickelodeon. Without such street knowledge, you'd not be considered a diplomat of new age vanities!

Therefore, Racer-X decided to use a Mega-Man online gaming platform to promote the democratic access to modern media and tech for the Irish Catholic minority in Northern Ireland. As Irish Catholic youngsters went online and competed in Mega-Man video-games with British Protestant youngsters, everyone was stirred by the modern notion of tech-delivered new age teamwork. This was advanced democracy.

Racer-X didn't want kids to just play with machine-guns. He wanted them to play Mega-Man online and participate in this new kind of activity which promoted peaceful competitiveness on tech-platforms between Protestants and Catholics. For the first time ever, Protestants and Catholics were thinking about unionized online social activity that was not related to street violence or pride!

Racer-X decided to market a Marvel Comics anti-heroine named Vertigo, a woman who had the power to use telekinesis to create pure confusion and anarchy. Racer-X suggested on blogs that Vertigo's telekinesis represented a modern fear of the misuse of unionizing cyber-networks that could threaten this newfound Protestant-Catholic peace among Mega-Man video-game fans online. Vertigo became Racer-X's new age Barbie doll for advanced ideology. She even became a favorite of Gerry Adams, democratic leader and diplomat of Sinn Fein!

RACER-X: I work with professors at Dartmouth to promote a modern consciousness regarding the democratic use of social resources to forward true dialogue. The goal of modernism is to champion basic social diaries!

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"Money is everything" (Ecclesiastes)