Vishnu/Shiva: "Chess" Card {Earth-Deed}

Faerie-gods use the 'magic' of sports-cards to create commerce-life Ego defenses of capitalism direction in the post-9/11 era.

An homage to how sports creates Homeland-capitalism magic, drawn from 'Americana' storytelling elements of Mr. Destiny (Michael Caine), which I think you'll like,

DISCLAIMER: References to the Lenny Dykstra rookie-card(s) offer no commercial/formal ties to American baseball franchises or pro-sports media news-story and therefore comprise this personal/fictional folkloric account or 'fan-diorama' of sports-culture direction in the United States (all 'real-world intersections' are therefore 'purely' expressions). 

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Vishnu, faerie-god of protection, and Shiva, faerie-god of destruction conferred with each other for a special commerce-life Ego mission on Earth-world for a capitalist race 'expression' regarding the value of sports-market media-rich treasures and applications to real-life consumerism defense-rhetoric for American ideology for the post-9/11 era of great capitalism storytelling/arts.

VISHNU: Let's cast a Philadelphia celebrity-baseball rookie-card as a capitalist race treasure for Ego-defenses (consumerism).

SHIVA: Yes; in fact, I've a 4-square 'set' of fantastic Len Dykstra 1986 rookie-cards, of which the Donruss edition is 'supreme.'

Thus, Vishnu/Shiva elected the 'fantastic' 1986 Donruss Lenny Dykstra rookie-card as their special Earth-world capitalist race sports (baseball) media-treasure for commerce-life Ego defenses-rhetoric in the post-9/11 era and it was the 'right-stuff' decision for the consumerism Crusade. Dykstra, a Phillies 'legend' of the modern era of American pro-baseball spirits, ironically, started out his 'cool' career as a NY-Mets outfielder, and the Donruss rookie-card was a great diadem for the 'chess' of capitalism personality required (arguably/perhaps) for post-9/11 era ideological defense of what made capitalism so 'personality' rich (and hence democracy-storied).

VISHNU: I'll become a media-movie producer/investor and make stories about the 'personality' of modern American Ego.

SHIVA: I'll become a cyber-blogging idealist-vigilante named Shadow to hype the Dykstra-Donruss 'magic' card for capitalism.

Sure, the post-9/11 era really did require much street-traffic optimism for commerce-life securities feelings amidst this new 'sea' of anti-Western terrorism stemming from problems with Israel-Palestine and OPEC/petrol politics (e.g., Gulf War). The Lenny Dykstra pre-Phillies career Donruss rookie-card 'consumerism-media gem' was a diamond in the rough that Vishnu/Shiva could cast as stellar thought of capitalism ideology and why consumerism was 'infused' into the living world of Homeland safety.

VISHNU: If you're a card-market buyer/seller with a Dykstra-Donruss gem, there's hope for capitalism in the living culture.

SHIVA: Yes; and the Donruss 'magic' card would remind consumers why nothing destroys the 'art' of commerce-life buildings!

VISHNU: I wonder if aliens (Martians!) from a 'parallel-universe' visited Earth, would they scrutinize our capitalism (vanity)?
SHIVA: Sure; however, we might 'lure' them into the 'fun' poker-game of commerce-life Ego energizers for Earth-dioramas.

VISHNU: Capitalism is a challenge to defend...though it makes for excellence in chess-oriented antiterrorism emojis.

SHIVA: That's why we love the 'casino' of commerce-life politics, right?

VISHNU: Where's the deep magic, Shiva?
SHIVA: It's all in the 'cards' of superstition(s), Vishnu (ha).

INTERPOL: Blood-diamond corruption today threatens the world-gem exchange and makes 'rogue' terrorism-finance woe!

Vishnu/Shiva decided to distribute a series of fun Xmas-themed chess-sets to 'troubled' Earth-cities for the holiday-consumer season (e.g., Belfast, Harlem, Jerusalem, Kyiv) following their media-toast to the magic Len Dykstra Donruss baseball rookie-card to accent what made capitalism-chess a 'social thing' of great human charms and value, and they hoped this new antiterrorism Crusade for media-optimism would enhance interests in commerce securities.

VISHNU: All we need are more toys (ha)!

SHIVA: Without toys, there's no theater (wow). 

Shiva started dating a UPenn professor of psychology who was studying the patterns of street-trends in sports-fanfare reflective of capitalism trends in the Western-world and was 'charmed' by her Philadelphia-city sports-lore interest(s) and considered her his newfound 'Aphrodite' in the Earth-world defense(s) of commerce-life Ego diary.

SHIVA: Who knew one would find 'everyman-magic' in the form of Romanticism-expression?

"The nature of Homeland Security is that no news is good news. And no news sometimes means somebody got interdicted at the border, somebody got interdicted before they could get on an airplane, somebody was arrested providing material support to terrorism. Homeland Security means very often something you never hear about" (Jeh Johnson).

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"Money is everything" (Ecclesiastes)