From: Lucian Mogosanu Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2019 12:43:22 +0000 (+0300) Subject: bucharest-iii: Updated draft X-Git-Tag: v0.11~44 X-Git-Url: https://git.mogosanu.ro/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d802373d38a148aea83e9e9c2b4a57bc3ec45b3b;p=thetarpit.git bucharest-iii: Updated draft --- diff --git a/drafts/000-bucharest-iii.markdown b/drafts/000-bucharest-iii.markdown index 1098245..b84ca73 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 snapshot of the young and the beautiful +title: Pre-Urban Centre Bucharest: a portrait of the young and the beautiful date: June 21, 2019 author: Lucian Mogoșanu tags: asphalt @@ -32,35 +32,36 @@ 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 before you go nuts. +gets to 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, 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. +those other pieces of Western pop-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-tv-channel-instead-of-that-one -- in other words, like their -forebears, only much worse. +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, 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 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. +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 +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 frustrated by stuff. Unlike the former, however, the latter sincerely @@ -71,52 +72,56 @@ 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. +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 +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 +the crime of disturbing their delicate flower, 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, etcaetera, ad nauseam. 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. +cancerous thinking spreads like a snowball all through their shitagram +feeds, throwing any faint hope of sanity down the proverbial +drain. Omul sfințește locul, or, as another Romanian saying goes, the +earth stinks beneath them wherever they pass. Thus considering all +this, and the moral imperative of wiping out all that stupid from the +face of the Earth: the best any self-respectable individual can do for +them -- or, for that matter, for the world at large, short of throwing +them in a ditch and pouring cement over -- the best anyone can do for +them is feed their frustration and keep them wallowing in that sad +place. Sure, beating might work if you really give a fuck, but +otherwise don't bother trying to talk them out of their stupidity -- +it simply [won't work][btcbase-1917325]. [^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. + 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, 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. +[^3]: Let's try to translate this. Literally, it's "man sanctifies the + place", but the more specific meaning goes similarly to "man [by + his presence and deeds in a particular place or context] is a + blessing [or a curse, for said place/context]". 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: + ignoring the fact that the they 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 + "[free][freedom]" things paid for by their masters keep them + trapped in their cubicle cocoons; and secondly, that their [perceived][hallucinated-freedom] choices have nothing to do with what they'll really do. @@ -127,7 +132,7 @@ particular shithole. 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 + "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 @@ -150,3 +155,4 @@ particular shithole. [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/ +[btcbase-1917325]: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-05#1917325