MindWar: Rapture of Denmark

A Story by Abishai100

A mythic-war over the nature of man's warped sense of capitalism-management prompts two major gods to create Danish dreams.

A toast to capitalism-mythology, inspired by the excellent film Rogue Trader (Ewan McGregor). Enjoy!

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The city of Copenhagen in Denmark was along the same axis of ultimate capitalism ambition as the United States in the new millennium, but no one's aware that the Great Rapture is at hand, testing man's faith in his own humility regarding self-checks in profiteerism.

Perhaps these signs of great matrix turbulence reflect real accessible civilization tribulations such as the Coronavirus quarantine, the Gulf War, and even the great Enron scandal in America, signs of great human endurance.

Nevertheless, the Rapture had shadowed Denmark and created a feeling of eerie darkness, requiring complete advocacy by the gods themselves, and no god wanted to deal with such manmade fog or black fire, leaving cities like Copenhagen in Denmark feeling oddly lonely.

Besides, the fashion-industry in Denmark was flourishing and offering media advocates plenty of potions to transcend these lingering Rapture feelings of strange emotions and deceptions created by the excesses of capitalism, so the gods were left to determine which of them would intercede during this 'invisible' worldly drama, and fortunately, civilization commerce messengers/angels like fashion-world figures/models were themselves safeguarded from the duty of engaging in this great 'war' over the aesthetics of manmade darkness.

If men were to make artworks to capture the enduring intrigue of the manmade city like Copenhagen in Denmark, one (even gods!) would only remark on the everlasting haunting magic of the great city itself.

Nevertheless, the great Rapture would prompt priests/shamans to consider the metaphysical heaviness of the utter neglect by the gods regarding this great manmade darkness, a 'MindWar' waged on the very nature of simple mythic images of heaven and hell. After all, capitalism was by definition a way to market the 'paper' of mystical toys and fantastic images of earthly fortunes. That's why most of the gods ignored this 'manmade' state of mythical arrogance!

MEDUSA: We shall not ignore this great Rapture, my god-brother.

ARES: No; this is an endless tribulation by potential if this 'MindWar' is not engaged consciously!

MEDUSA: We shall engage with the main figure of adversarialism in this Rapture, my god-brother.

ARES: Yes; and I believe this adversary may be some kind of shadow-demon.

MEDUSA: We shall manifest ourselves as 'titans' of Earth-defense.

That's what these two awesome sibling gods decided to do and became the first-and-only 'hero-gods' who chose consciously to deal with the deathly fog of the MindWar of the Rapture made evident in manmade cities like Copenhagen in Denmark. Medusa, god of focus, and Ares, god of battle, decided to intervene into the city of Copenhagen and create shields and veils for the imminent presence of the dark force of urban dollars related to capitalism-vanity.

MEDUSA: We shall challenge this shadow-demon adversary to games of Othello.

ARES: Yes; and this shall be followed by field-battles involving swordplay.

MEDUSA: I didn't think you thought I'd be a great swordswoman, my god-brother!

ARES: Let's focus now on engaging the 'shadow-demon adversary' first in Othello in Denmark.

MEDUSA: These games will highlight our special joint-skills in creating perimeters of game-piece boxing.

ARES: Yes; and to create boundaries of limited motion in these game-piece shall reflect humility!

After Medusa/Ares engaged with and defeated this great and pseudo-invisible 'shadow-demon' adversary in Copenhagen in Denmark, by defeating him a 7-series Othello-game requiring great acumen in paired/partnered game-piece box-plays involving straight line defenses and limits of opponent-motion, the infuriated shadow-demon adversary fled from their view temporarily to terrorize campers outside Copenhagen in Denmark.

SHADOW-DEMON: My message is simple --- no end to the vanity of wrath in the face of humiliating ambition!

Shadow-Demon the adversary then unleashed his legion of spiritualized glowing zombies upon the great manmade city of Copenhagen in Denmark. The great Rapture was now unavoidable!

MEDUSA: We shall now engage the terrible Shadow-Demon in a straight sword-fight.

ARES: There's no end to this brand of MindWar, but we shall fight with diagonal swiftness, my god-sister!

Medusa/Ares fought with the Shadow-Demon adversary on the outskirts of the great manmade city of Copenhagen in Denmark during this great Rapture to save the mortal imagination of civilization. Their swordplay involved great speed, elegance, teamwork, courage, wits, and agility; requiring them to simply weave lines of dissonance and crisscrossed evasion with swords to just confound Shadow-Demon (an immortal!) to the point where he'd be just willing to retreat back into the bottomless pit of darkness. Meanwhile, Medusa/Ares began re-appropriating leadership resources to help the Danish army destroy the legion of zombies unleashed by the Shadow-Demon before he departed in failure while Medusa/Ares themselves began instituting special tech-resources for the city elders in Copenhagen to reinstate the very fabric of commercial wizardry --- the vitality of the giant computing Net.

MEDUSA: I shall play tunes for you in honor of our honorable triumph for mankind!

ARES: We did a beautiful work.

And so the MindWar was over, the Rapture was thankfully a thrilling memory, and the fireflies of nature re-emerged to once again offer Earth its special brand of natural hope.

A thankful Danish pirate-thief named Amlan Satan (code-name: Storm-Shadow) decided to now go on a special bank-robbery raid on corrupt capitalism-barons in Europe still hiding terrorism-financing 'blood-diamonds' in bank safe-boxes which threatened this great Restoration of civilization capitalism theater.

Amlan used a special toy water-rifled filled with acid to burn holes in safe-boxes containing blood-diamonds to create a new trend of anti-terrorism dialogue in Europe. His heists were never violent and always reflective of the democratic aesthetic championed by the gods Medusa/Ares during the salvation-themed MindWar.