Tuesday, February 28, 2012

neopostivism

post-rock, neo-eclectic, neo-modern, post-modern, post-post-modern, post-scarcity, post-realism, post-structuralism, neoliberalism, neorealism, aftermodern, neo-expressionism, neo-conceptual, post-materialism, post-marxism and neo-marxism, post-industrial, post-capitalism, post-positivism or postempiricism, postanarchism, posthumanism and antihumanism, neo-minimalism; anti-art, anti-anti-art, anti-intellectualism (quite an interesting term), antipositivism etc etc etc ad infinitum and also try to combine or add terms and prefixes neo-, anti- and post-...

from the very first conscious years of human's life we are being told what to think, what to do and how to obey.. schools are developing disgust, repulsion and distaste to acquiring knowledge and knowing more. Someone who tends to know more is being bullied and trolled as "new generation" would rather refer to that and how many times one can hear words like smartass, nerd, geek or simply jerk?

"Alpha children wear grey They work much harder than we do, because they're so frightfully clever. I'm really awfuly glad I'm a Beta, because I don't work so hard. And then we are much better than the Gammas and Deltas. Gammas are stupid. They all wear green, and Delta children wear khaki. Oh no, I don't want to play with Delta children. And Epsilons are still worse. They're too stupid to be able …" 

Have you ever wondered why? Or how? Or for what reason? When was last time you looked up  something that was of interest for you? Maybe some small detail. Like what is krambambuli, absenteeism, bowed guitar, where are andamanese people coming from, what is entropy, low countries or what was the war of the roses, what is feud, sikhism, who was Tiamat, who invented pipe-line, lamp, tv, internet, who figured out what x-rays are and millions, trillions, zillions other questions..

but of course, it is so much easier just to eat what is being fed, to watch what is being showed and read what is being written. I am glad I'm a Beta, because I don't work so hard...

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