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Corporate “Theater in the Cylinder”

Posted in Images Matter by Administrator on the February 4th, 2010

Are the flight attendants stationed in the front of the aircraft more attractive than the ones in the back?

Is the aircraft choreographed the way one might imagine a stage would be in a corporate “theater in the cylinder”, with the physically gorgeous actors performing in what would be considered “downstage”, visible to the highest paying spectators and embodying the corporate narrative with allure, while the Plain Jane with unfortunate skin slums it back in the “cheap seats” and is watched by significantly less spectators secondary to a seating design that mimicks the forward facing array found in classrooms, churches, and courtrooms where there is always a singular performer occupying a central locus of agency?

If so, the person in power is at the head of the class, seated on the bench, or behind the altar, displaying her body like a seductively kinetic corporate pamphlet; and she’s an airborne knockout available only by upgrading to first class.

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