Monday, June 14, 2010

Are you yuppsters serious?! Are you actually praying for a One-World Government?! Well, HERE IT IS!!


For anyone looking at this photograph, the question arises whether this is a hallucination or reality (Most hipsters are schizophrenic, anyway, so I won't pay any attention to their responses). It appears that the Fashion Industrial Complex is now being in-your-face about what their true intentions are. The NEW WORLD ORDER NYC, a fashion boutique, is not where most people would assume it to be. If someone were to tell me about it, I would automatically assume such a travesty to be located on the Upper East Side, BUT NO, its actual location is on Avenue B and 2nd street. That's right, Alphabet City, the same supposed bastion of non-comformity that saw the Beat Generation, the Punk Movement, and the Tompkins Square Riots. Bygone days are history. In 2010, the ancien regime of the East Village is rapidly fading by the day as the yuppie landscape is ever increasing. Apparently the exponential rent increases are not enough. These specimens are not even ATTEMPTING to preserve the cultural vitality of ABC-land and create somewhat of a tribute to the village of olde, but instead they are brazenly marking their assumed territory and proclaiming the inevitable VENI VIDI VICI (Look it up, this Latin phrase is on your cigarette packs). A few blocks south, on Clinton St., there is also a bar/restaurant called "1492". Innnntressstiinng. They just so happened to choose the year of European Conquest to name a bar in a gentrified neighborhood.


As with anything that the FIC is doing, I am most certainly confused, and no doubt have many questions which I doubt would be answered by the Hoi Polloi of this NWO fashion boutique. Exactly what are their intentions for naming this outlet after such an abomination which is NEW WORLD ORDER? Are they being flippant? Is this yet another pathetic attempt at hipster irony? Or perhaps this is a beyond arrogant slap in the face to all the old time village residents who clearly did not stand for New World Order but unfortunately saw their beloved movement and community fall to gentrification. Whatever it is, this is beyond a shadow of a doubt an eyesore and I cannot believe someone would let this go up in the Village, let alone New York City.



The day of reckoning fast approaches for these occupying forces of the counter-culture. Although there doesn't seem to be an end in sight, I remember the story of the Tower of Babel in Genesis. The people kept building and building their hideous tower, thinking that they could soar above the clouds and into space, and then without warning God struck it down. I hope that's what will happen to the Fashion Industrial Complex, and to gentrification. Although I wonder, even if that happens, will the sheeple still not get it?

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