No Other Choice
The Fiesta 13’s Pointless & Tangential Review
No Other Choice
No Other Choice, now in theaters. A Fiesta 11 out of 13.
The Fiesta 13 spent Monday reading MLK Jr’s quotes about capitalism. Like this one:
Capitalism is always in danger of inspiring men to be more concerned about making a living than making a life. We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles, rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to humanity-thus capitalism can lead to a practical materialism that is as pernicious as the materialism taught by communism. Martin Luther King Jr.
In Blaine, NE, Martn Luther King Jr. might as well be a ghost, a cypher, just a 1 & 0 in the infinite digital landscape. MLK jr. was erased from most Blaine, NE’s AMERICA!-wide digital information database. At good ole #1302, our home Blaine, we have access to all AfterEarth materials, a legacy Blaine benefit. In FirstEarth, our world, MLK jr. ‘Popped’ in 1943 at age 13. ‘Popped’ means his head exploded. Monitoring AfterEarth’s media, we watched to see how this MLK Ghost in the Machine would shape AfterEarth. Because, “If a head pops, they must’ve been sumpthin in another world,” The Supervisors say.
Old Man Blayne ‘solved’ racism with KeyHawker’s Insta-Skin. Now, anyone can be one of 12 million colors in 20 seconds, money willing. OMB declared racism ‘an out-dated idea’ in 1966.
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Let’s explain a bit. This The Fiesta 13 is in Blaine, NE #1302, on the alternate earth, FirstEarth. FirstEarth was Big Banged one-googleth of a second earlier than your earth, AfterEarth. Our only entertainment comes strictly from AfterEarth inter-dimensional retransmitted broadcasts. Our Excellent Logogarchs found creation too expensive with inter-dimensional broadcast theft a more economically viable solution. So, we watch you instead in an act of massive, communal cognitive dissonance.
From 1930 until 2000, every day, someone in the world Popped. The Fiesta 13 is researching the full list of The Most Important Popped in FirstEarth. No one knows why or even when the Popping started. Other prominent Popped include Albert Einstein, FDR & Adolph Hitler. They all popped at age 13.
In your 1930, Old Man Blayne was super-elected CEO, Master Prophet & The One Who Deals With It, among 70 other titles. OMB controlled AMERICA! for forty years until the KeyHawker Consortium assumed power and now manages AMERICA!’s property and contracts. We live under an economic/spiritual system called Mystic Capitali$m. Trust the Algorithm. Capitalism unleashed, unregulated & unrecognizable.
Blaine, NE #1302, one of the earliest legacy Blaine, NE’s has many amenities of the Oldey-Timey not available to the more modular modern Blaine.. We hope to bridge the inter-dimensional worlds through our work. And tell tales out of school.
If a man does not know he is destitute, you can convince him he’s a millionaire & he’ll give you his last dollar. Old Man Blayne from Be The Best Cog You Can Cog.
Oh, Right…A Review
Park Chan-wook’s No Other Choice, one of the best satires in recent years, asks the question When is There No Other Choice? This ‘No Other Choice’ is the justification for all actions needed to return to a nostalgic, normal, comfortable existence. The binary-ness of capitalist choice boiled-down to it’s All-or-Nothing mindset, ‘No Other Choice’ choice left to choose.
After not winning a NoBell prize, your president had No Other Choice but to nuke Greenland.
Remember that time you cancelled a streaming service because of encroaching poverty or a temporary set-back? That sense of loss. The Bavarian cream sucked out of your new eclair. You are a failure. Such a simple, small pleasure razored-out. Now, a you’ve got another goal. Restoration. Every new loss means a new goal for restoration. Until the cycle of loss & goals overwhelm. Since loss has always been a main element of life, loss isn’t just the hole capitalism wants you to fill, but an organic part of living.
In Gaza or The Sudan, do those under genocide worry about affording Tennis lessons? The constant media drumbeat of annoyances cured only through purchase flattens our ability to discern the actual importance of our activities. We’re barraged with problems we’re told only money can solve. Problems exist only externally. The 10,000 mouthwash commercials we see in a year obliterates brain space for actual internal problems, turns natural empathy into self-involvement. Distraction through manufactured worry. Ten thousand pinpricks of anxiety.
Convince a man there’s a snake in that cave & you have a follower. Convince a man the snake will kill him & you have his last dollar. Old Man Blayne from Smell Their Last Dollar, an Ol Factory Sense Seminar.
JAC57, No Other Choice
Created Day 26186 by Off-Site Uterus, a company that provides Level 2 Pyramid Puppets to anonymous Logogarchs, Jack 5-7 was a model trainee. In Blaine, NE, Logogarchs use their DNA to create clones called Pyramid Puppets. PP’s earn their DNA-Overlords a lifelong cut of their clone wages. E-Z Mon-ee.
After complete training, at 13, Jack 5-7 earned an extra two inches for his new employee penis & double the nerve points of orgasm. His upgraded liver processed liquid waste to water with only a paste run-off. His Logo-Owner sunk more money into JAC57 than all of his other CloneKids. He paid for extra-sensory organs. The new, expensive patented organs ensured Jack 5-7 the constant feeling of Bliss.
24/10/400 isolated, sealed in his HomePod, Jack 5-7 was also fully inoculated and evolutionarily elevated in the full-body sense language, Prompt. Prompt allowed digital communication through a mixture of one-word ThoughtPrompts and emotional chemical relays called FeelPrompt. Think a thought, then think an emotion & the person you Prompt both hears you in their head and feels you in their body. Like a chemical emoticon.
Jack 5-7 had over 1 million assumed followers on BlaineNet. All clones are famous in their own heads. He had over 100 sexual partners & a functioning YeastMate & haptic body suit to physicalize the sexual act. JAC57 worked 23 1/2 hours a day converting Oldey-Timey books into Prompt. He was in three words: totally, chemically happy.
By all monitoring, Jack 5-7 was a successful investment for over 25 years.
Until one day in March, the anonymous Logogarch, let’s call him Larry, wanted a fourth spaceship. Larry felt dipping into his enormous financial holdings would be a sign of failure to his equals. So, Larry used a centrifugal extractor to kill JAC57 and extract his valuable chemicals, recouping some of his investment.
Larry had No Other Choice.
We all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free market capitalism for the poor. Martin Luther King Jr.
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