From: Lucian Mogosanu Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2019 13:13:35 +0000 (+0300) Subject: bucharest-iii: Add footnote X-Git-Tag: v0.11~43 X-Git-Url: https://git.mogosanu.ro/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=5bce661cf44372d237d6b06f91654fe7918e0bb9;p=thetarpit.git bucharest-iii: Add footnote --- diff --git a/drafts/000-bucharest-iii.markdown b/drafts/000-bucharest-iii.markdown index b84ca73..a2cac7a 100644 --- a/drafts/000-bucharest-iii.markdown +++ b/drafts/000-bucharest-iii.markdown @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ --- postid: 000 -title: Pre-Urban Centre Bucharest: a portrait of the young and the beautiful +title: Pre-Urban Centre Bucharest: a portrait of the free and the beautiful date: June 21, 2019 author: Lucian Mogoșanu tags: asphalt @@ -53,9 +53,9 @@ by how the news, as portrayed by this-other-tv-channel-instead-of-that-one, [relates to them][shutdown] -- in other words, like their forebears, only much worse. -The typical young and beautiful is a wage slave[^4] working for some +The typical free and beautiful[^4] is a wage slave[^5] 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 +her place among the "corporatist"[^6] 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 @@ -63,11 +63,11 @@ females, microshit in [excel][excel] on circa 500 a month -- while the minimum wage and 3000, depending on their luck and competence in their chosen field. -Similarly to the old woman above, the young and beautiful is deeply +Similarly to the old woman above, the free 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 +mommy[^7]. 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. @@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ But! that's not all, you see. These tend to get frustrated not only by "stuff", but actually from more or less nothing. Say you block their passage to some place or the other. When that happens, they'll get 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 +unlike what any sane orc would do in these lands[^8], 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 to punish you for @@ -116,7 +116,13 @@ it simply [won't work][btcbase-1917325]. ills and virtues being entirely a function of those who populate it. -[^4]: Though they will readily misrepresent their situation, proceeding +[^4]: In original, "tânăr frumos și liber", i.e. a beautiful and free + youth. For the record, I don't claim any ownership over the term + (it's been used on the Romanian-speaking web since at least + 2017), and any overlap between previous usage and the one in + this post is mostly coincidental. + +[^5]: Though they will readily misrepresent their situation, proceeding from the argument that "slaves didn't have a choice", blissfully ignoring the fact that the they in question also don't have one: firstly considering that the perks and other assorted @@ -128,19 +134,19 @@ it simply [won't work][btcbase-1917325]. ... 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 +[^6]: 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 two and "pizdă", i.e. corpsadacunt. -[^6]: Depending on the youth's intellect, modern mommy will be +[^7]: 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 +[^8]: 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].