Dark Land of Nod

What became of the once 'fabled' vision of the great City-Hall is the question addressed by a Wall-Street 'savior' in a metaphysics tale of Ego-experiment.

An homage to 'classic' ethics-storytelling, invoking images of the 'danger(s)' of misuse of Earth-borne commercial-life treasures/diamonds like competition network activity oriented 'gems' of exorcising the misused Ego, inspired by the neo-gothic/noir themes of Road to Perdition (Tom Hanks). 

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The darkened city of Earth was created once as a place of great gathering and commercial traffic which the Ancient Greeks once prophesied would be a haven of intersections in the human race expression of the quality of capitalism chess and intelligence and choreographed competition and organized markets and sciences and arts of flair and the flowering of the 'natural' Ego. However, the corruption of men and the rise of the underground labyrinths of piracy activity and even blood-diamond smuggling had thrown this envisioned haven of traffic vibrancy into a 'state' of pocket-denials. We all know what denial is, but this form of psyche-denial came in the form of pure neglect of undesirable evils and indulgences catering to the few and eroding the lives of the many and then, in turn, corroding the optimistic spirits of the so-called fortunate and corrupted few. This sort of Inferno was the signature of this Dark Land of Nod, and it seemed nothing would/could break the spell.

That's when a valiant Wall Street 'prince' named Amlan Satan entered the fray to add his special spice-dash of inventive proactive economic vitality-injections, infusing creative-thinking for pocket problem-solving so as to incite 'real' forms of profit and subsiding the foolhardy nature of isolated blindsight profiteer-activity that had erected the mighty and eerie invisible and 'incomplete' walls of the Dark Land of Nod. Now, it was said that Amlan Satan was an Ivy-grad man, but this was at first simply 'cool' street-chatter, but when Mr. Satan managed to create strange micro-miracles through carefully-placed Wall Street 'potions' of market vibrancy, those who'd been pirates suddenly turned to more 'ingenious' forms of capitalism chess, forms even a Martian spying on humans from the moon (might) envy!

AMLAN SATAN: I'm not a 'prince' from a faerie-tale or incredible fantasy-adventure and offer what's simply ordered/natural!

The Dark Land of Nod was characterized by disgraced women, fat men, uneducated children, wayward politicians, unmotivated artists, blinded scientists, and the helpless clergy. However, Amlan Satan was to this modern capitalist 'Earth-race' what John F. Kennedy was to American pride during the culture-street politics 'angst' and protest-worry of the valiantly defiant counter-culture movement --- a figurehead for potential choreographed socialized distances facilitating 'true' democratic intelligence. The ingenuity of Amlan Satan, in fact, prompted cyber-comics and fanzine-writers to cast special 'Old World' charm-stories about creative economics solutions to the very real, even Biblical, tales of overwhelming (and undesirable!) indulgences of flesh-and-bone (or Ego-disarray).

"No one who, like me, conjures up the most evil of those half-tamed demons that inhabit the human breast, and seeks to wrestle with them, can expect to come through the struggle unscathed" (Sigmund Freud, On Hysteria).

If the Dark Land of Nod is what was prophesied in the Book of Genesis to potentially be the culmination of the dangers of the eating from the dangerous/forbidden Tree of Knowledge, then Amlan Satan had become the 'media-savvy' and magazine-utilitarian 'symbolic savior' of the mass-traffic congestion of pure sin and death, or of the vices of envy, wrath, gluttony, lust, greed, and pride. Nod had become the place where a housewife would buy narcotics from a druglord functioning through postmen and then pass-on her 'charms' to her goodly girlfriends so as to numb herself from the reality of crime-stories of real 'graphic' quality 'witnessed' on public-television. It'd become a place where helplessness fueled the chain-reaction(s) of darkness or apathy or even vanity.

AMLAN SATAN: I'm no 'savior' of the masses or a 'genius' of the finances-cadence but merely a 'piper' of the capitalist chess-IQ.

There's no such thing as 'civilization' without the 'trouble(s)' of intrigue, and Mr. Satan (Amlan) had cast a special magical exorcist charm for the dispelling of the problem of manmade stupidity. Sure, he offended his adversaries and the nemeses of the great 'City Hall' envisioned by the calculating and philosophical Greeks of the ancient-world, but his media-work with capitalist solutions to profiteer-dominion waste was simply brilliant and prompted simply reactionary chess-stalemate practicality even a spying Martian on the moon would envy and consider a 'human race expression' of the quality of man's own 'wrought' solution to man's own pillars of Hell and ugliness. The stones were thrown into the water and would not resurface but sink deep into the bottom(s). Thus the memory of the dark land of Nod would be as it should be, according to the more 'adult' quality of mankind --- one of 'pure' Ego definition!

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"Money is everything" (Ecclesiastes)