The Secret of the Mall*

A group of grads explore the symbols of capitalism-imagination inside a Chicago-mall to derive at a 'personality' friendly humor for American distance(s).

A consumerism-culture 'parable' inspired by the street-comedy themes of Mallrats (Kevin Smith).

DISCLAIMER: This work of movie fanfiction offers no explicit/commercial ties to the film-maker's vision and all images used herein comprise purely a 'personal' work of dramatics translation for express/limited purposes of re-presenting a 'social play' and therefore do not represent any views of the city of Chicago or its shopping center(s). 

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A unit of college-grads calling themselves the Real-IRA were wandering around pretending to be 'servants' of the great traffic-defense machine but all the while taking conversational walking brain-notes about the quality of commerce-life Ego optimism imprinted onto street-consumerism, the iconic American shopping-mall (ha). The Real-IRA was composed of Amlan, Shelbye, Ezzy, and Marcus and wandered around the Windy-City mall one glorious Saturday, from morning till night, as they promised each other, noting the intersection of consumers/traffic and imagining what the folks they passed by were interested in and what they were working on and what made them 'diplomats' of capitalism while taking their own notes about their friendship and trust and what made them intrigued by the 'charms' of commercial life.

AMLAN: The 'secret of the mall' discovered (here) in the Bulls-Bears market of the challenged Windy-City is pure Ego.

SHELBYE: It's about self-confidence --- consumerism --- and the people we notice, for social-media culture, are diplomats!

EZZY: Any of these folks might offer us the 'precision' of capitalism's reflection for life-chess improvement, but what about us?

MARCUS: I propose we wander around with a special 'eye' for the designs of consumerism defense (for antiterrorism) chess.

AMLAN: Alright; we each have a vision/goal; we'll learn to be better friends in this mall; I'll weave a post for social-media IQ.

Amlan wandered into a sports-cards store inside the 'iconic' Windy-City shopping-center or 'mall' and was showcased a very special/reflective McDonald's market-campaign Bernie-Kosar QB card of great sports-market/treasure value and wondered about why the special diadem would reveal a special 'personality' about consumerism intelligence or the 'chess' of capitalism defense. He wondered what his friends of the 'Real-IRA' were busy eating at the mall food-court while he admired the McDonald's-Kosar piece, confident that he was the first of the 'gang' to uncover the truth --- the real 'secret of the mall' (now).

SHELBYE: Wow, I found a fantastic edition of Treasure-Island inside the mall bookshop, and I know the answer's in Ego (wow).

Flash-forward about 4 years into the future, and we find Amlan Satan of that reflective Windy-City mall gang known to themselves (only!) as the 'Real-IRA' having settled down and living as a Bostonian and writing comics-fanfiction stories of Richie-Rich tales of capitalism-ideology. That day, that 'glorious' Saturday inside that symbolic Windy-City shopping-mall, Amlan and his gang of the 'Real-IRA' had found multiple views/answers to their posed question/riddle, regarding what was the metaphysical 'secret of the mall' in America. Today, 4 years later, Amlan Satan, writing Richie-Rich comics, writes his 'conclusion' wrought imprinted capitalism-lore tales.

AMLAN SATAN: The 'secret of the mall' imprinted onto social-media/Selfie culture is, of course, treasure photography (wow).

SHELBYE: What's so special about treasure-photography, girlfriend?
EZZY: Did you see Satan's newest Richie-Rich meets Batman comic inside some 'symbolic' American mall, girlfriend?
SHELBYE: No!
EZZY: Well...it includes a vigilantism-comics stick-figure doodle of a vigilante-heroine duet symbolizing consumerism comedy.

SHELBYE: I guess Amlan our prince found some 'gesture' imagery regarding the flowers of war, the defense of America.

EZZY: Yeah, a 'doom' saying about the quality of Western end.

"Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone" (John Maynard Keynes).

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"Money is everything" (Ecclesiastes)