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Consumerism Fable: Delicacy

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Abishai100

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The widely-publicized American scandal involving the extra-marital love affair between teenager Amy Fisher and Italian-American married man Joey Buttafuoco which resulted in the murder attempt of Buttafuoco's wife revealed the modern phenomenon of publicity-catalyzed social intrigue.

Indeed, the relevant Hollywood (USA) movie "Celebrity" (1998) explores those concepts of media-fueled hypnosis.

It would be prudent therefore to consider a modern anti-fable regarding the confounding of community values in the seedy world of consumerism narcotics trafficking:

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An attractive maid named Caroline began working for a man and his wife who lived in a seemingly affluent and peaceful suburban American town. Caroline began an illicit extra-marital love affair with the man who as it turns out was a respected and feared heroin dealer. Caroline even began using her maid service employment front to complete various heroin smuggling operations for her employer.

One of Caroline's personal heroin customers was a nearby couple who soon became addicts to Caroline's lucrative supply. Caroline proceeded to engage in an extra-marital love affair with the husband of the couple, and when the wife found out, she tried to kill Caroline was promptly arrested for attempted murder.

While the wife was in prison, Caroline continued her extra-marital affairs much to the dismay of a local man named Alan (incidentally a sommelier) who caught wind of these society rumors involving the cunning and clever Caroline. These rumors were in a way affecting the morale of the quiet suburban town which was not used to narcotics intrigue. Alan decided to match wits with Caroline to bring down the insidious narcotics circles which were catalyzing these incendiary extra-marital affairs.

Alan decided to employ a group of very beautiful young women to run as small-time door-to-door wine distributors for this town, delivering boxed wine on basket-equipped tidy scooters. When the town grew more and more happy with Alan's army of lovely lady scooter-riding wine saleswomen, the morale of the town rose again and the infamy and haunting impact of Caroline's operations diminished in weight. One of Alan's lady scooter wine employees even joked to Alan that Caroline may wish to be employed by him.

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This simple vignette perhaps optimistically suggets that modern consumerism inquisition Hollywood (USA) movies such as "Traffic" (2000) could potentially serve as social psyche symbols of euphoria management.

Is this modern fable a new age comic book or a book writer's consumerism reinvention dream?


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