Temetwir

28.4.06

basicity

"It's all about staying basic" he mumbled through the cigarette sticking out of his mouth, trying to light a match, "you think there's more to life than there really is but there really isn't. Modernity and civilisation, civility actually, since civilisation is nothing but a town if you really knew your history, and you would have known your history if you just stayed basic.. modernity and civility, words of the like are virtually nothing but nouns used by people who think that there's more to life than there really is. Those same group of people who fancy everything that's not already in their possession, and those same group of people who keep whining about everything that's already in their possession. Civility and modernity my bum, I'll tell you what that is, it's like when you have a six year old kid and you take her into a toy store, and no matter how many toys she buys, she'll always see that one final toy up on the top shelf. It's all about something, it's all about having to have this or that, or why Little Jimmy has it and not Little Janey, there's always something that we're the only people on the planet who aren't doing it right. Well not me mister. Go ahead, call me "un-patriotic", buncha kids watching way too many movies if you ask me. Patriotic, yeah right, that's an excuse that works, let's all forget what we are and where we come from and keep our eyes on good ol' lil Jimmy, desire what he possesses in the name of being nationalists. The biggest favor you can ever do for your country is accept it for what it is, it's not about dragging it into accepting what you think you are. All you have to ask yourself is, how do you know the difference? The answer is by staying basic."


5 Comments:

  • Is the whole thing between quotes because you heard someone say that?? Or do YOU feel that way?

    By Blogger Sedna, at 29.4.06  

  • sedna
    whole thing is between quotes as to make it vague .. no name, no age, no occupation, no nothing .. for all we know "he" could be anyone u want him to be
    even me, if u insist heh

    i didnt exactly hear it from someone, i made it up but based on discussions i had with a number of ppl

    as for where i personally stand, i dont agree with everything he's saying because he comes off as saying "basicity = no change"
    and i have another definition for staying basic which isnt abt 'no change'

    By Blogger Temetwir, at 29.4.06  

  • are you talking basic as in simple?

    By Blogger 7asoon, at 29.4.06  

  • bo 3ali thats the whole idea, what is basic?

    simple?
    old?
    "traditional" .. ?

    what is basic :)

    By Blogger Temetwir, at 29.4.06  

  • zinzin
    i imagine ur asking for my personal definition so here goes, let me put it this way

    u have a corridor lined by 2 walls where 1 wall is religion and the other is tradition, as long as u keep between those 2 walls.. then that's staying basic, as far as im concerned at least

    patriosm and 'love of the country' or 'this is what's best for the countrys future' is sometimes used as an excuse to skip over either one of the walls, according to the character

    By Blogger Temetwir, at 29.4.06  

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