Athletic

Portrait of Earth 'strangers' who share something representative about capitalism-fantasy.

A fun society cross-section fable about the 'consciousness' of capitalism, inspired by American Beauty (Sam Mendes). 

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Athletes are not as intelligent as, say computer scientists, physicists, doctors, policemen, or chess-masters. The role of the athlete is to first entertain with physical skill rather than cerebral communications and therefore has less to do with educational training or acumen. Nevertheless, sports-treasures such as sports-trade cards (football/baseball) can gain in incredible social/market/cultural value, as in a Honus Wagner baseball card worth above $1M or a Super Bowl ambition-symbolic modern (1999) football card like a Randall Cunningham post-Eagles career team-transfer (Viking-QB) Upper Deck original 'red-print' edition treasure. Athletes aren't compared to Einstein or Salk or Eliot Ness or Bobby Fischer but nevertheless boast these 'celebrity-icon culture-print 'sports-card' gems/treasures which boom in civilization 'trade' value. It's a great irony under capitalism-IQ, and it serves as the foreground for our special society fable about a cross-section of very interesting athletes on Earth who happen to be chess-masters (secretly). Follow along.

The athletes who happen to be chess-playing masters (secretly!) in this society fable are from around the globe but all happen to be Eagles (football!) fans and all have one thing common --- they all have a set of 'cool' Eagles cufflinks jewelry which represent football-finery or lifestyle ornamentations! The athletes are 'strangers' to each other but not to us and we know they all have these Eagles-icon jewelry-pieces.

AMLAN SATAN: An Algerian chess-master and Facebook-chess fan and wizard of rook-bishop chess-piece strategy that can leverage just about any 'offensive' offense with an opponent-queen piece of marshal bravado, which makes him a cool customer, but he's also a fanatic of Eagles-games and has those cufflinks and likes that Upper Deck Randall Cunningham post-Eagles career team-transfer (Viking-QB) football spirits card original red-print edition which he showcases on social-media as a 'trophy' of what makes sports-fanfare a hallmark for Ego-imagery (ha).

SHELBYE O'HARA: A schoolteacher in Northern Ireland (UK), she plays chess against herself mostly and loves to use bishops and pawns to create diagrams of offense-defense creativity and likes the idea that chess may be linked to sports and sports-fanfare especially in the domain of competition temperance or maturity (or calmness), which is why she feels her Eagles cufflinks jewelry-pieces are great examples of Western-athletics social-media conversation-starters (wow).

TIM ROBBINS: An ex-member of the Chechnyan rebel-force in Eastern Europe, Tim moved to British Columbia (Vancouver) where he became president of a junior ice-hockey organization linked to a cyber-chess club called the Porcellian, and he believes his Eagles-cufflink jewelry pieces remind him of why his days as an 'athletic' rebel against Mother Russia served as a 'premonition' of what makes intelligence a re-presentation of customs-based Ego-exorcism.

ELIZA SHAH: Emigrant from India and resident of Boston, this fair damsel who's still single happened to be a Patriots fan in the early Brady-years before the splendor of the Eagles came to the fore and cast out her demons of hero-worship based purely on address; Eliza happens also to love chess and writes stories on the Internet about child-chess prodigies who grow up to become more like sports-fans of televised athletics events (collegiate or pro) and thinks her Eagles cufflinks-pieces symbolize social-media spirits surrounding citizenry 'participant' cheers for social arena competition (or democracy!).

AJAY SATAN: He's the twin brother of Amlan Satan and is much more conservative than Amlan and like his brother loves the Eagles, the Cunningham post-Eagles career 1999 Upper Deck Viking-QB red-original print-edition football card and feels his Eagles cufflink jewelry pieces are 'signs' of the troubles of society linked to overestimation of competition drawing furious ambition at the cost of human mental temperance/calm that guides those 'fine-lines' between athletics...and capitalism (for social-media Ego cool).

AJAY SATAN: I'm casting on social-media a very symbolic Olympics-Topps card of a handicapped athlete for 'chess' notions of competition leveraged by capitalism-society's more 'intelligent' view of the general 'demo' quality of competition-IQ.

What do these 'Strangers' for Eagles-fanfare and cufflinks-jewelry pride and chess-love have in common besides their 'representative' civilization cross-section invisible diplomacy of the Randall Cunningham post-Eagles career team-transfer (Viking-QB) football card red-original print edition football card? Well, they each/all remind us why competition is almost always leveraged by the 'traffic-consciousness' of real human race emojis.

THE END

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"Money is everything" (Ecclesiastes)