From: Lucian Mogosanu Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2019 18:15:41 +0000 (+0300) Subject: Add early draft for the young and the beautiful X-Git-Tag: v0.11~46 X-Git-Url: https://git.mogosanu.ro/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=686fb87a68384925c3296c11b83d78866b01beb5;p=thetarpit.git Add early draft for the young and the beautiful --- diff --git a/drafts/000-bucharest-iii.markdown b/drafts/000-bucharest-iii.markdown new file mode 100644 index 0000000..909d65b --- /dev/null +++ b/drafts/000-bucharest-iii.markdown @@ -0,0 +1,79 @@ +--- +postid: 000 +title: Pre-Urban Centre Bucharest: a snapshot of the young and the beautiful +date: June 20, 2019 +author: Lucian Mogoșanu +tags: asphalt +--- + +

+**[Motto][btcbase-1918305]**: +***mircea_popescu**: i could go on, but it's not worht anyone's +time. call them centrul preorasenesc "romania", si mai da-i si-n +pula.*

+ +Well, it might not be, but regardless... + +If you've ever been to Romania[^1], and in particular Bucharest, and in +particular its rural parts[^2], then you've probably encountered a +certain type of individual. I'm referring to the communist old man or +woman who in the '90s has emigrated from her village in, say, Olt or +Vaslui or Galați over to ye olde country's Capital, in search for a +better life. And I could go on, along the lines of: and finding no such +thing as a better life, but instead more of the same or worse, since +"omul sfințește locul"[^3] and there's always worse to come around. + +These people, you see, are deeply frustrated by what they've had to +endure since times have changed and [mommy][btcbase-1918637] +[left the building][july-theses]. Life's shitty in the big city, where +you hafta live in a [matchbox][hruscheba] instead of a proper house, +where no one can be bothered to clean the shit from the streets, where +you gotta be careful what you say to that mean motherfucker sitting at +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. + +This very dramatic portrayal aside, one would expect that things have +changed in the passing thirty years, and that the new generation, +enlightened as they are by Cartoon Network, Pro Sieben, CNN and all +those other pieces of Western culture they've ingurgitated as kids, are +different, even *better* after some fashion -- that they've understood +the sorrows and ills and so on and so forth of their forebears and that +they're prepared to build something else, something better... after some +fashion. + +Unfortunately -- and this will come as no surprise to the Romanians +reading this -- this isn't the case. Au contraire, if you've been +watching the local news then you're familiar with the so-called "frumoși +și tineri", the Romanian millenial generation, the ones who will readily +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 +forebears, only much worse. + +The young and the beautiful -- characteristics. + +[^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 + of stupidity that manifests under certain circumstances which, for + the sake of brevity, I'm not going to detail here. + +[^2]: In fact the whole thing's just an overgrown village, but + whatever. Let's just say it holds a very few select places that at + 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. + +[btcbase-1918305]: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-16#1918305 +[btcbase-1918637]: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-19#1918637 +[july-theses]: /posts/y03/05a-july-theses.html#selection-901.0-901.108 +[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