Proposal Essay Possibilities

Problem: Modern day economic growth, dependent on mass-production and consumer culture, is enslaving societies to consumerist ideology; perpetuating hierarchies of wealth (i.e. material and social inequality); depleting the world of its natural (and often irreplacable) resources; and creating irreversible damage to global ecosystems and wildlife.

(A) Practical/Policy Solution: This form of resolution would require one of two things:
        1) The advance of federal authorities in confiscating key industries from corporate ownership--reappropriating the distribution of fundamental goods/services to assure the coverage of destitute communities (medicines, communication media, food, shelter)--while also reconfiguring the methods of manufacturing (aka away from designed obsolescence) to reduce waste and energy consumption.

or     2) To establish a popular activist front demanding a higher level of philanthropic qualification from elite proprietors, in the face of populous preparation for the dejection of consumerist obligations, which would radically endanger corporate operations.


(B) Research Solution: Research for this measure would revolve around alternative forms of economic exchange. Works from theoreticians may be compiled, trial-studies put in place in small communities, and analyses performed which seek the efficacy of neo-economies. Such models might include the speculation of a pluralist society, in where a socialist apparatus is implemented to address confines of poverty while a 'free market' derivative resides above to regulate and sustain a more liberal output and range of products.


(C) Media Solution: This, I would like to have more fun with... I would like to make a film, a blockbuster, centered on a tight coalition of filmmakers whose residence in Los Angeles has guided them to disillusionment with consumer culture and against political hierarchy--both of which they consider expressions of corruption. Determined to antagonize the existing regime and its capitalist pillars, they devise to kidnap and execute a string of wanton big-business elites and their political affiliates. They decide however, to film the vigilante enterprise. They intentionally tip off local investigators, initiating a suspense-filled manhunt; all the while, using their studio as headquarters, production equiptment for communication, costumes for disguise, cameras to capture candid footage of their own as well as their victims' crimes, and their sharp wits to eliminate any remnants of evidence from their activities. Still proving elusive to law enforcement, despite the investigators' suspicions, they market their upcoming film as the summer's next hottest crime thriller. Making sure to cover up their tracks, the film crew edits out the identities of their victims and pulls through in producing a kick-ass flick whose plot is exactly what I've just described. The movie's theatre release is attended by the detectives. They realize the contents of the film, but are left reveling in their rage knowing their prosecution had failed to avail.

Yup... Warm up the popcorn and get ready to give this motherfucker a two thumbs up!