Shiva/Vishnu: The Kleinfeld Government

A Story by Abishai100

Two iconic deities descend to Earth, engaged in a labyrinth of dressy capitalism (blood-diamond!) ditches.

An adventurous vignette about blood-diamond vigilance, featuring a mythology fanfiction about the folk-Eastern gods Shiva (deity of destruction) and Vishnu (deity of protection), inspired by the destiny American film Carlito's Way (Brian De Palma). Enjoy!

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Vishnu, the god of protection/preservation, teamed up with Shiva, the god of destruction/meditation. The two deities were thinking about the quality and substance of American capitalism on Earth in the new millennium and were concerned about the warlord-trade of blood-diamonds or 'conflict diamonds' in South Africa used to finance terrorism and linked to corrupt capital barons in Europe. Shiva/Vishnu decided to transform themselves into media-linked Americans and get involved in this very modern problem, to help humanity!

SHIVA: We'll go to Chicago, and I'll become a lawyer named Kleinfeld.

VISHNU: Cool; I'll become a celebrated American actor named Tom Shanks.

That's just what they did too --- Shiva became Amlan Kleinfeld, a nerdist lawyer in capitalism-drenched Chicago (USA), and Vishnu became the American celebrity-thespian Tom Shanks. Now, the two would work in the legal and cinema fields to spread awareness of the problem of blood-diamond corruption and why it sullied the modern North American gem market in the new millennium!

INTERPOL: Blood-diamond traffic comprises a serious piracy issue now sullying gem merchant silos in North America.

Diamond merchants and consumers simply couldn't keep up with the pace of underground smuggling of these 'blood-diamonds' by warlords who sought to integrate these dark gems into the standard diamond market, corrupting American stores. What would this spell for new age consumerism designs and imagination itself?

The two mighty and ambitious gods Shiva/Vishnu weren't alone in this crusade. They're now joined by three deities working secretly alongside them on Earth and in the Americas. These three deities were Laxmi, goddess of fortune, Saraswati, goddess of learning, and Durga, goddess of governance! Laxmi/Saraswati/Durga wanted to intervene in modern Chicago capitalism and work along the highways where Shiva/Kleinfeld and Vishnu/Shanks were working to undermine evil blood-diamond matrices in North America.

Laxmi became a TV star, Saraswati a magazine editor, and Durga a Vatican consultant. The three goddesses were linked romantically in the past to Shiva, but Laxmi was also linked to Vishnu. Laxmi wanted to create a special TV ad campaign about the purity of American diamond stores; Saraswati a magazine feature-series about blood-diamond research by Interpol; Durga a diamond-mining history presentation in Vatican City (Europe).

LAXMI: We don't want Chicago capitalism to destroy the imagination of youngsters!

SARASWATI: Modern magazines should cover this blood-diamond problem threatening street commerce.

DURGA: We have to differentiate between consumerism...and education.

Laxmi/Saraswati/Durga created a special GI Joe patriotism-comics showcase in New York (Buffalo), where sports-fans were considered very patriotic and representative of the American ethos in the new millennium! Were corrupt capital barons smuggling in blood-diamonds from Africa/Europe creating bridges between the West and East Coasts and the Midwest to require more active forms of patriotism education for today's youngsters learning about the 'political imagination' behind capitalism defenses?

SHIVA: We'll pursue some spotlights on vigilantes seeking to subvert blood-diamond baron silos.

VISHNU: Yes, these offbeat modern heroes should be linked to new forms of consumerism advertisements!

While Shiva/Kleinfeld and Vishnu/Shanks continued to work in the Windy City of Chicago, home of the Bears/Cubs, the three goddesses Laxmi/Saraswati/Durga set-up shop in New York (Buffalo) where they dealt with street-consciousness and Eastern media linked to consumerism imagination. Now, Buffalo was long-time home to the Bills fans thinking of the glory-days of the Super Bowl heartbreak era when Jim Kelly marshaled a triumphantly exciting team to bring the East a great American dream.

LAXMI: Many Giants fans bought their wives diamonds after the defeat of the mighty Bills in the Super Bowl!

SARASWATI: This created long-time sentiments for Bills football romances in the East Coast.

DURGA: We need to harness consumerism-media/entertainment with diamond-sales consciousness.

Diamond sales and ads comprised a major faction of American media/consumerism, and Tom Shanks (Vishnu) decided to apply his media-celebrity status in the spotlighting of the fashion-models linked to diamond marketing and why their basic integrity was now threatened by the darkness of new era blood-diamond terrorism!

MEDIA MOGUL: We care about the 'shape' of American imagination in war and courage as presented in modern cinema.

SHIVA/KLEINFELD: I'll set up a special branch in my Chicago law-firm dedicated to claims of diamond corruption fears.

Shiva/Kleinfeld was taking the Chicago subway when a corrupt Dutch baron immersed in blood-diamond traffic sent a henchman to sneak up behind him to assassinate the active modern American legal expert. This henchmen, Al, was in a dark leather jacket and hiding two silver guns, which he intended to use with a silencer-casing to shoot Kleinfeld in the subway station without notice.

Fortunately, Shiva/Kleinfeld spotted this henchman and recognized his deformed intentionality and quickly hopped onto a side-train neighboring the one being boarded just prior by both himself and the now-noticed stalking henchman! Shiva/Kleinfeld made it to the Chicago Bank where he was intending to travel all along that Chicago afternoon and walked in wearing a Middle Eastern costume and stole $20 million Antwerp blood-diamonds from the Dutch baron's safe-box while claiming he's working alongside Interpol to create an alliance-axis with the baron, swapping the baron's dark blood diamonds with the fake ones hidden in the seams of his jacket while distracting the escorting manager with a simple dance joke!

KLEINFELD (Shiva): "I've purchased a Porsche with diamond-profits so Chicago people know baron-power is outshined."

Shiva/Kleinfeld now had no choice but to carry a strong silencer-pistol with target-scope everytime he went out in public, to avoid the new henchmen assigned by the barons lurking in North America, seeking to destroy any agent of Interpol-oriented street vigilance who'd threaten their dark grip on gem-detection.