MPR

A propos of nothing it began. On Monday September 3, 2007 Arjuna picked up the Guardian Unlimited and swiftly read an article that Riazat Butt wrote concerning a new phenomenon---the collision of spirituality and marketing. Old business this. However it takes on a new shade of meaning this time around. Here's the article:

"It started as a forum to discuss how to spread the message of Islam, but after more than 40 years the biggest Muslim gathering in North America has become a magnet for consumerism.
Around 40,000 people poured into the Islamic Society of North America's 44th annual convention in Rosemount, Illinois, over the weekend. The huge convention centre was packed with 333 stalls catering for the modern Muslim's every need, including a digital Qur'an audio player, festive Ramadan lights, a pre-packed funeral kit, halal jerky and a mobile phone application that provides daily prayer times for more than 12,000 cities worldwide.
Among the entrepreneurs using the opportunity to market Muslim products was 32-year-old Mansoor Basha, from Chicago, offering a satellite navigation system for Hajj. The Lubaik system aims to help pilgrims locate tents, campsites, hotels, places of interest and hospitals in Mecca and Medina.
Mr Basha says: "I went for Hajj and I had many problems. You don't know Arabic and not everyone speaks English, so it's difficult if you get split up from your tour group and want to find your way back to your hotel. Plus, not all the streets are named, and have you ever tried to find your tent when it looks the same as five million others?"
The handheld device does not have a patent but, he says proudly, it has a registered trademark.
Mr Basha, who visits the convention every year, rejects the idea that the convention is more about shopping than spirituality. [...]
blah blah blah, blah blah, whatever.
"The Muslim American community is commercially motivated - that's why they're in the US, for the economic opportunity, and they're frank about that. Muslims here want to be upwardly mobile. They don't see it as an evil."
It is this prosperity that has led to greater cohesion and participation in society. A study from the Pew Research Centre showed Muslims in America to be middle class, mainstream and integrated. 'They say green is the colour of Islam and in the US it's taken on a literal aspect - and not in a bad way.'"

There you have it, the entire thing, I mean premise, absurd in a way that...but who can say these days there's so much strange sh#$ going down it's getting hard to figure...which doesn't detract us from doing what it is that we do as far as putting in time usefully. I don't know about you, it is for the living to dream. Arjuna has a busy day ahead of him.Welcome to our production room," said Sheila Gross, "this is where it all happens!" "we do all of the special effects so that the listeners really feel that they are in Cairo, or Baghdad, or wherever the news story need to come from."

"Wow Mr. Beener, sir: I CAN'T BELIEVE WHAT YOU ARE SAYING," shouted Arjuna. " So these stories are merely fabricated then for public consumption?"

"More or less, you've got it. If there are a few demonstrators we can call it 100, 000 and then we have a forceable number of protestors---a truly democratic uprising. this is actually the case today in Egypt.

Look here is virtual science dump: Worldwidescience Corporation
Reality can be fabricated easily enough once folks get over the "digital stopgap" look here Arjuna you tell those Bhagavad business suits that we have got their ass in a stir. We can generate, establish, create a foundation for----lay a premise for ---I mean this algorithm is just going to chew them up!! We can devise peer-reviewed science on the fly---the virtual Laboratron (tm. pending) renders in virtual time eons of research---it's almost as close in terms of quantum computing.

We generate research, pal, we generate science. So you tell Mr. Krishna it was a real pleasure to basically re-absorb Corporate Mother Ananda...those piddling pricks. They are goin to get all the heat, the bite in the butt...THIS IS YOUR WAKE UP CALL all you bleary-eyed bovine loving dreamers. The game is ours.
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