---
postid: 000
title: Pre-Urban Centre Bucharest: a snapshot of the young and the beautiful
-date: June 20, 2019
+date: June 21, 2019
author: Lucian Mogoșanu
tags: asphalt
---
the corner, lest you [get it][decalog]. So you vent however you can,
such as by yelling at people in the bus and pushing youngsters around,
and if you're not even able to do that, then you're lucky if a stroke
-gets you.
+gets you before you go nuts.
This very dramatic portrayal aside, one would expect that things have
changed in the passing thirty years, and that the new generation,
like, share, whine and #rezist, but who otherwise are quite incapable of
thinking for themselves and instead prefer to judge by how the news
[relates to them][shutdown], as portrayed by
-this-other-channel-instead-of-that-one -- in other words, like their
+this-other-tv-channel-instead-of-that-one -- in other words, like their
forebears, only much worse.
-The young and the beautiful -- characteristics.
+The typical young and beautiful is a wage slave[^4] working for some
+multinational company or the other, which is how he also earned his or
+her place among the "corporatist"[^5] class. The luckier ones among them
+[microshit][microshit] on "software" and "web" on somewhere around
+1500-3000 euros a month, while the sadder ones, usually females,
+microshit in [excel][excel] on circa 500 a month -- while the *really*
+sad ones work ten to fifteen hours a day on anything between 500 and
+3000, depending on their luck and competence in their chosen field.
+
+Similarly to the old woman above, the young and beautiful is deeply
+frustrated by stuff. Unlike the former, however, the latter sincerely
+believes that "the system" brought forth enemies that she will vanquish
+with her youth and beauty and with the help of her newfound
+mommy[^6]. Challenging her political/ideological convictions will
+immediately get you labeled as "quite bad", which is actually quite a
+good approach if the fucker in question is tiresome and you wanna keep
+her at a distance.
+
+But! that's not all, you see. These also get frustrated from more or
+less nothing. Say you block their passage to some place or the other.
+When that happens, they'll get quite passive aggressive, up to a hefty
+dose of verbal aggressiveness. But unlike what any sane orc would do in
+these lands[^7], these ones won't escalate the conflict; instead,
+they'll avoid you altogether! and then quite amusingly, they'll give you
+an angry look from a distance, furious with the realization that mommy
+isn't there for them, while you, you are real and a threat to their very
+existence, which will confuse them into a "how the hell is this even
+possible", which then will drive them even madder etcaetera.
+
+Besides all this, they're of very little use to anyone, while their
+cancerous thinking spreads all through their shitagram feeds, throwing
+any faint hope of sanity down the proverbial drain. Thus the easiest
+most useful thing anyone can do is play with their frustration; or, if
+you're the type, you may give them a good beating, though I very much
+doubt that the effort will yield any useful results. Either way: omul
+sfințește locul, or, as another Romanian saying goes, the Earth stinks
+beneath them wherever they pass; thus conversely, I am quite convinced
+that any miserable beautiful-youth can only make the world a better
+place to live in, which makes the ideal of their eventual disappearance
+a moral imperative for any self-respectable citizen living in this
+particular shithole.
[^1]: Although none of the traits I'm about to describe are in any way
specific to Romania or Romanians, they just denote a particular kind
least resemble parts of a town.
[^3]: Let's try to translate this. Literally, it would mean "man
- sanctifies the place", but the meaning is more along the lines of "man
- [by his presence and deeds in a particular place] is a blessing
- [or a curse, for said place]". In other words, given any place, it
- has no qualities by itself, its joys and sorrows and ills and
- virtues being entirely a function of those who populate it.
+ sanctifies the place", but the meaning is more along the lines of
+ "man [by his presence and deeds in a particular place] is a blessing
+ [or a curse, for said place]". In other words, no given place has
+ any qualities by itself, its joys and sorrows and ills and virtues
+ being entirely a function of those who populate it.
+
+[^4]: Though they will readily misrepresent their situation, proceeding
+ from the argument that "slaves didn't have a choice", blissfully
+ ignoring the fact that the schmucks in question also don't have one:
+ firstly considering that the perks and other assorted
+ "[free][freedom]" things paid for by their masters keeps them
+ trapped in their bubbles; and secondly, that their
+ [perceived][hallucinated-freedom] choices have nothing to do with
+ what they'll really do.
+
+ ... or rather with what they *won't* do, eh? 'Tis a sad comfy world
+ they live in.
+
+[^5]: More commonly known as "corporatrist", which is a portmanteau of
+ the former and "trist", i.e. sad. Sure, corporasad was a thing a
+ good while before Romanians got to experience it, but this gets
+ better, because the feminine of "trist" can now be altered to
+ "corporatrizdă", which is a portmanteau of the former too and
+ "pizdă", i.e. corpsadacunt.
+
+[^6]: Depending on the youth's intellect, modern mommy will be
+ represented either vaguely as "NATO", "USA", "democracy", "rule of
+ law" and so on, or more concretely as rando politruk who gets to
+ shine on the TV that month/year/whatever.
+
+[^7]: Which is, pick up a fight. This would happen routinely back in the
+ '90s -- by the way, notice how I'm very much alive and kicking after
+ all that? --, only meanwhile [the world has changed][world].
[btcbase-1918305]: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-16#1918305
[btcbase-1918637]: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-19#1918637
[hruscheba]: http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=hruscheba
[decalog]: /posts/y05/091-decalog.html#selection-85.0-84.7
[shutdown]: http://trilema.com/2016/please-stop-using-dns-already-and-other-considerations/#selection-710.0-710.1
+[freedom]: /posts/y03/04f-freedom-is-slavery.html
+[hallucinated-freedom]: http://trilema.com/2017/the-practical-costs-of-hallucinated-freedom/
+[microshit]: http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=microshit
+[excel]: http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=excel
+[world]: http://trilema.com/2017/the-world-has-changed/
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