Will men actually be moved to buy this rather nerdy, fussy-looking vehicle, if there is a tall slender blonde woman standing in front of it, wearing a revealing little one-piece thing and adopting a come-hither attitude?  Do they really believe she is saying something like, "If you buy this fussy-looking vehicle, I will know you are a true man, the man of my dreams, and I will want to have torrid sex with you in the fold-down back seat"?

Is there a flip-side, for the sake of ladies with bulging pocketbooks?  One of those extreme dodgeball-ists who model for Hanes Underwear?  But what would he be posing in front of?  What could we expect the ladies to want to buy?  Surely not a remarkably ugly white metallic thing.

And let us not overlook the bizarre intrusion of the Easter Island monumental statuary in the background.  Maybe there is a reference to an ancient legend that all children in, say, California study in school: The blonde is being imprisoned (ha ha) by the evil stone giant; and she is beckoning to her rich hero to come get in the big white toaster-oven and mow the monster down; and then will come the moment when she cries, "My hero!, how can I ever repay you?!"

Most ironically, the story of Easter Island is a notorious environmental tragedy.  And the obsessive quarrying, carving and transport of those statues had a lot to do with it.  It is hard to see how those statues can ever be used in a green cause.

Well, you see, this is where we ethicists with an interest in aesthetics crack into action:  How are we to decide?; Is it better for everybody to wear minimal bathing-suits, no matter what their exposed flesh looks like?; Or, for the sake of the common aesthetic good, should we cover up, a` la musulmane, la iranienne, la Talibanette, inspite of all the implicated green-house gas emissions?

Never you fear, we are working on it.  Lots of interviews are scheduled, with bathing-suit models and underwear models of all sorts.

Nice call, "Mahmoud Hitler."  And, even more, identifying Islamo-fascism as worse than Nazism.

There's another excellent argument for less clothing my dear philosopher.  It irritates the puritanical "mahmouds" and "falwels" of all political and religious stripes.  Hehehey.

I am already interviewing skimpily clad undividuals on these and other vital issues while training on the wooded trails I bike on.  Will inform the discussion as the dialectic moves forward.  

Swimming season is almost upon the northwoods. (Justice Black and his wife were known to "skinny dip" in our area though, a distinguished opinion undeed!)

Why hasn't Victoria weighed in on this topic yet?  That's what I want to know.

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Dear caniscandida,
Read Culture of Ecology: Reconciling Economics And Environment (Hardcover) by Robert E. Babe. If you mouse over the main banner picture on The Box 66 website, the photo underneath has a cover of the book, revealing how the Moai is quickly becoming a symbol for the whole of the environmental movement, for the very reason you described. Thanks for your comments, they're all great! And yes, it's always about slaying the dragon for the girl!

RemyC.

Slay that infernal combustion dragon!  Right arm dude!!

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