Consumerism Stories

Corporate Junk is a poetic novel about the ongoing Naziism of Britain and America that has been hidden into the ethos of modern living. King touches upon Jewish and Japanese suffering equating the slavery of today's technologies among the leftovers of war. Cutting edge stuff...

It's an attack on the thoughts The very thing from which we were formed Going for their core Until they ain't innocent no more

As the main character journeys through the vacuity of consumer society, from suburban surroundings to the 'neighbourhood box store,' his mind slowly begins to unravel. Filled with existential despair and acerbic wit these short stories or, 'lamentations,' grapple with themes ranging from contemporary politics, to God and religion, to the absurdity of everyday existence. https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/20856796.Simon_Brass From the opening moments exploring the unraveling mind of a character on a journey through the vacuity of consumer society, to the finale in which we await the arrival of an absent Messiah, these stories cut to the heart of the human condition.

It's the year 2070, where American society has long pushed past the age of labor. The people of the USA live their days enslaved to technology and hedonism, stuck in an innocently catastrophic epidemic of consumerism. The Grid lies in the United States National Power Plant in Los Angeles, where all of the power in America functions. Only five federal electricians in the country, including a man named Yuri Ilyanov, have access to The Grid. So what happens when The Grid is destroyed and technology is gone?

In the near future time travel, though trivialized through commercialization in the public eye, proves to be more dangerous than anticipated. Apathy and heartbreak culminate in the perfect cocktail to unravel reality and reveal the dreaded absurdity beneath it.

~ Some days, no matter how I stop up my ears, I still hear the bell's knell... ~ This book of poetry explores and exposes my personal struggle, as I witness an entire society turn its back to avoid seeing how its behaviour impacts our fragile, beleaguered Earth. As unspeakably destructive consumerism lays waste to much of the planet's biosphere, humans are (ever so) slowly waking up to the harm and true cost of our way of life. We see yet refuse to see at the same time. We are loath to give up our creature comforts, our toe-hold in the climb for status, our relative sense of security, even though Life on the planet is threatened with irreversible harm, perhaps even annihilation. We've forgotten where we come from and no longer question the lie passed down to us from generation to generation. That we deserve to live like royalty at the expense of all other forms of life. That we are the ultimate Masters of the World. Holding on to this conviction, despite what we know in our hearts and minds, will soon send us spiralling into a chain reaction of disasters. As chaos overtakes our planet, we will rue the day we turned our backs and simply let it happen. What will we tell our children and grandchildren? Read at your own risk!!

The twentieth entry of the 2020-2023 Film Journal is the 1999 classic, "Fight Club". In this unexpectedly extensive entry, my mind unfurls and I let loose my biting and unorthodox thoughts on this film's construction, adaptation, and themes particularly in relation to the world of 2023. Custom poster by Ahmed Fahmy

Fred is angry, Fred is sad, Fred is happy, Fred is mad, Fred wants you to read a story about the logical conclusions of modern day media consumption. If you don't nothing will happen because he is probably already dead

Poems about the urban modern condition.

the evocation of indulgence commonplace amongst consumerism.

Rengoku has returned from the war and has finally found a place to live and start a family with his beloved wife akaza. Will the American dream provide them with the perfect suburbian life?

When you're broken. When all your strings have snapped, and all your candles blown out, it's hard to have pity for a race so ignorant

An endless parade of living vibrant choices in motion present themselves before your immobile enthroned form to symbolically "fight" to entice you to give them your "favor", your "approval", your "purchase". That sort of thing.

It's a short story about life and it's cycle. Every living things depends on someone else for food and nutrition to survive. Whether it is humans or someone else. Do you think we will ever be able to escape this cycle? Do we really need to escape this cycle? Or can we just accept the way it is?

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