The Vanity War: Dream-Warden

The eccentric net-vigilante Shadow is on a modern mission to dispel terrorism-dowries, guided by the spirits of Medusa/Ares!

One extra fanfiction/adaptation inspired by the dystopian series The Maxx. Happy Summer, all (and stay safe!), 

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Capitalism created a strange-bedfellow consciousness and spawned a new kind of crusading online anti-hero named the Shadow, who wore a ninja-costume with a red cobra symbol. Shadow wanted to rid the Apocalyptic dystopian modern world of its vices and sheer darkness regarding the corruption of the imagination which turned hubs of traffic into eerie cities of vanity!

SHADOW: I consider myself a 'dream-warden' in this great Vanity War waged to curb the capitalist-vices of worldly obesity.

Fortunately, Shadow was guided in his dreams by the overseeing spirit of two heavenly deities, Medusa, the snake-woman of great psychic visions, and Ares, god of war himself. Medusa/Ares came to Shadow it seemed in states of lucid dream-sleep and advised him on the course of this online 'vigilante-crusade' to diffuse the great Vanity War, waged upon the souls of humans wrought by the traps of capitalism deformity and depression. Medusa/Ares also debated about the nature of envy and wrath!

MEDUSA: Civilization was simpler during the American counter-culture, brother.
ARES: Yet, it was during that 'free-love' era when the seeds of capitalism vanities were planted.
MEDUSA: It's that certain?
ARES: Well, we see in that laissez-faire time of inventive radical politics/lifestyle confusions about ethics.
MEDUSA: Are you referring to the complications linked to free-love ideology mixed with American political dominance?
ARES: Yes, problems like the Vietnam War in that era reminded the free-love 'hippies' that America was 'Big Brother.'
MEDUSA: It's that kind of imagination that reminded people the wars waged over vanity had ethical complexities!
ARES: Precisely, sister.
MEDUSA: Well, the modern world has been lifted from that field-state of free-love music to a point of capitalism depression.
ARES: The collapse of the Soviet Union bred extra problems of capitalism-lifestyle in challenged Russia.
MEDUSA: So, it seems that free-love era of the 'hippies' has given way to a new brand of vampire-logic!
ARES: We therefore think of our good vigilante ward 'Shadow' as a diplomat of that forgotten field-innocence.

Medusa/Ares came to the good modern vigilante 'Shadow' in dreams in which they informed him about the threat to the modern capitalism matrix posed by special new era dark inventions like warlord-mine blood diamond traffic used to fund random terrorist groups and stretching from Africa to Europe, a modern practice revealing the eerie shape of inventive anti-capitalism death-strokes. Merchants in the diamond industry couldn't sort through terrorism-gems from clean ones now!

Fortunately, Shadow knew of Interpol-agency relevant modern anti-baron pirates who worked in Europe to subvert the evil influence of warlords mining blood diamonds to fund terrorism. Shadow blogged about these inventive pirates as 'Merry Men' who might reveal to us the strange magic associated with new forms of police-work!

MEDUSA/ARES: Your adversaries will resemble phantoms in the sky who rain down thoughts of raw disgust at your mission.

SHADOW: I'm aware of the presence of 'invisible witches' and warlords in the world who confuse our sense of democracy.

Nevertheless, Shadow referenced ideas and dialogue held by great international groups like UNICEF who continued to champion the old-world values of safe democracy and commerce in the face of terrorism (e.g., 9/11) and therefore held back by the 'Inferno' of modern invented dollars!

SHADOW: I appreciate modern-media contributions to the Vanity War troubles about consumerism diets.

MEDUSA/ARES: You must configure images of divinity with images of mania in this crusade to curb the force of danger.

Shadow had become the world's ultimate 'metaphysics-archer' of values injections. His blogs became popular and he was then compared to the likes of Thoreau, Abby, and Nader. This was a vigilante of great focus on the strange threat posed by capitalism untempered by the forces of ethics and therefore had a clean line of aim on the dangers associated with unchecked worldly designs!

SHADOW: My adversaries will seem to me messengers of the shadows in the Vanity War, messengers of pure dollars.

MEDUSA/ARES: Rely on the totems and diadems of civilization police, such as the American army, forces of diamonds.

Shadow took the lessens of yesteryear and applied them to the problems of modernity, to re-express terrorism and mania through the eyes/vision of inventive capitalism management. Where was the folklore of Robin Hood in this new era of great anti-globalization detours?

A strange dark presence now challenged Medusa/Ares who'd sought to continue to guide the heroic Shadow in his vigilante online quest to bring messages of values work in this era of dangerous capitalism inventions. This presence was the horned giant robot Unicron who brought omens of great uncontrolled arrogance!

MEDUSA/ARES: You doubt the potential of vigilance in capitalism?
UNICRON: Capitalism vanities won't be controlled by religious intervention!
MEDUSA/ARES: Why'd you believe that, dark Unicron?
UNICRON: Commerce cuts highways and byways of unchecked wrath!
MEDUSA/ARES: Yet, this vigilante Shadow is a messenger of democracy.
UNICRON: What's the value of democracy in a dark world inhabited by terrorists?
MEDUSA/ARES: Terrorism can be coordinated as merely a form of 'depression' crime.
UNICRON: Well, this Vanity War is waged over the daydreams of humans with real ambitions!
MEDUSA/ARES: Ambition is valued, but so is diligence.
UNICRON: You can't deny that capitalism creates a special demand for unchecked fortunes!
MEDUSA/ARES: This imagination of 'fortune' is balanced by folk-tales of great democratic acrobats.
UNICRON: Such as?
MEDUSA/ARES: Robin Hood, the Untouchables, Hell's Angels, and the Transformers.
UNICRON: Can media/entertainment really solve the problem of proliferated modern daring?
MEDUSA/ARES: It's in the imagination that we negotiate the contours of constructed dollars.
UNICRON: Perhaps your daring vigilante 'Shadow' will offer us some real words of 'net-diligence.'
MEDUSA/ARES: That's the hope, mighty Unicron!
UNICRON: Very well, then; I'll allow this unusual eccentric 'Shadow' to carry on in his private mission!
MEDUSA/ARES: We're grateful for this diamond chance of forging roads to managed civilization ambitions.
UNICRON: Let's hope America can continue to serve as the modern world's unofficial 'Big Brother.'
MEDUSA/ARES: We know men like Shadow create lines of promise regarding that very-same idea.
UNICRON: We don't want a globalized rendition of Vietnam, do we?
MEDUSA/ARES: Not at all; that's why Shadow will inject an anti-dystopian remedy to socialized depression!
UNICRON: Modern media managers will have to take charge in the dissemination of Shadow's courage.
MEDUSA/ARES: Americans have no reason to fail in such a...drive.
UNICRON: God bless America!

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"Money is everything" (Ecclesiastes)