¿our times?

¿our times?

Why is it we've more words than they, back in the day.

Yet we say the least, write even nay.

Every and all is now broken, ebonics, and acronyms

What happened to stoics and grammar mimicking angelic hymns

Why do we seek and covet 'lessening' devices

Yet we lessen naught and end up in vices

We’re so obsessed with time

Whilst all we do is squander it— ALL the time

They say we are more 'connected' than ever in history

Pray thee, please do tell, why bad feeling about this story

Connected to whom, where, for how long, and to what end?

Seems more of dis-connected from reality and down with virtuality—  how do we append?

More fabrics and polymers in different forms and 'sizes'

Yet we dress a size too less and shape all flaw—  for 'eyes'

More recipes. Crops. Hybrid and pure.

Who would believe some drop to eat manure!!?

More schools. Dorms. Libraries. And halls

Yet ignorance is more abound than drops in waterfalls

More partners—  choices

Less smarter—  inner voices

More begets less

and less begets more

or

Less is less thus tis more (than enough)

Or is it

Less is less and that makes it of more (value).

If I were asked to describe this tense and time

I would term it "Less and less for less in time".

Or simply

"The Illusion of more and forever more (in due time)".

Better yet

why not just

"Our time(s)"?

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© I A Saeed 30.12.11 2:55pm

"We are hip?!"

• Why is it hip to whip out an inhaler as you wud a handkerchief

• To eat this and not that because.. “you know I’ve got ulcer!”

• Since when has it been hip and mandatory to swallow ‘food’ with beverages- generation of ‘coking’ (before n after)

• To brag about exploits involving physical, emotional, financial, and spiritual rape?

• When did it all become hip okay and just there for a woman to marry a woman and vice versa

• Was it yesterday that they started telling kids- your parents are a nuisance and you can do and be anything you want (by ‘anything’ of course they mean- a slut, pimp, thief, sloth, leech, etc)

• Setting the volume high in a vehicle with multiple speakers and a woofer as you ‘cruise’ in town seated in an obnoxious pose as if you’ve got hemorrhoids - hip!?

• Remember the days you couldn’t get a ‘cool’ girl because you didn’t smoke a cigarette? I do- they liked em bad!? Now its flavored smoke- shisha. *smh*

• They say bullying ends in elementary and highschool. Forgetting that in certain circles of hipness it’s a hobby and routine to oppress physically or verbally, daily!

• So what if you could do ‘stunts’ that damage the vehicle your parents bought you (they seem to buy u everything don’t they). No wonder there are cars aptly named thank-you-daddy.

• Girls wearing nothing but designer shades and fake body parts- in the name of vogue and bandwagons? Hip?!

• Their counter-parts sporting ridiculous haircuts, sagging skinny jeans, and fruity shoes- their ‘straight’ alright and…erm… hip?!?

• When did it become a must for every cell in ones body to conform to the norms of modern day tech, fashion, and diet slavery?

• ‘Funky’ ‘Kinky’ ‘Sexy’ are all hip. Anythingelse… is…' just there'?!

• My twitter handle- hip. Facebook name- hip. BB pm n pic- hip. 

             Life- *long silence*  

               I’LL WAIT!!

Seems like we’ve been concentrating on the hips and the hips not. So much so that our hearts have withered. Brains? Kids of nowadays are born without them!

Afterall… they are hip!

*sigh*

From a folder in my sys named... "Make sense"

This would go in line with a conspiracy theory (if u are as paranoid as a squirrel on caffeinated crack i.e)…



For a long time now I’ve subconsciously assessed how the media makes a taboo acceptable, congenial, and surely amicable.


A common African proverb says

“…when a taboo has been committed for too long it becomes a tradition.”



A well-blended cocktail of malevolent humor and fruitless laughter is a hell of a potent way of transforming an unthinkable taboo, into an amiable tradition.

All that is needed is a subtle way of slowly but surely, making it seem 'silly', then funny, then cliché.

GAME OVER!

At this point in time he who questions/criticizes 'it' becomes the uncouth cynosure. An oddity. An obstruction an –ist of an –ism.

For example… homosexuality, nudity, vulgarity/profanity, bigotry, adultery, -ty –ty –ty -ty sexual exploitation, prostitution, morals, pregnancies, child care and support- parenting, abortions, laissez faire attitude, respect for society and elders, complexes (inferiority and otherwise), racism, ism ism ism ism...

All it takes is an award winning 'broke-back' plot

Amplified jokes and display of an adult’s butt on tv and in mags… even games!? (Don’t get me started on the stuff in games nowadays… uhh!)

 
All sortsa profanity irrespective of setting, context, or genre
Kids who be like... "Fuck u dad, hate you!" (dont u think that affects our upcoming generation and to-be borns?)

The extent and abstruseness of decadence and demoralization is just…. just… uhhhhhuhh!!


Things get so messed up a 12yr old boy starts thinking…. “I must be gay/emo/tabooy/etc?!”

Why you ask?

Cuz for starters he gets cold feet talking to girls and flees with his tail between his legs not knowing everyone before and after that age suffers from the very same problem (hell! I know dudes with that issue to date- no names…. YET! :p).


It’s called a phase of life in toto. But no one ever told him… who has the time anyone? What method do they employ?

Well… the media does it for them then… from cartoons to movies to games to mags and comics… and definitely social networking sites!

*sigh*

Now that u think about it… Perhaps that’s why the poor bastard couldn’t actually ‘speak’ to any girl at all. He can poke her though, write on her wall, chat with her, tag her, LOL with her, tweeeeet her with all his 140…??!! But he's never processed the thought of DOING anything in real life.

Same thing for a girl. She ends up becomes a bitter lesbo or an emo with bloodshot eyes and dark patches under her eyes. In the African context… she would prolly have ulcer, chest pain, back pain, pain pain, do drugs BUT won’t kill herself (na warri gurl now)… her body will kill itself for her.

Her favourite phrase wud be…
“nobody really gets me…"

*hissing and smdh*

I’m saying not anything about this? Who get her time self!?
*hiss*




*Breaking the barrier/threshold*

Over time we’ve learnt to laugh at taboo things, cuz trust me they (the occult media) go alllll out on their scripts, screenplays and set ups to make sure even the grim reaper starts chuckling in a second….

The aftermath ,of course, is that...
what you used to abhorrently despise and criticize becomes
just a thing u hiss at,
twitch your lips at,
go “hmmm!” at,
shake your head at
and next thing u know… UR LAUGHING?!?

Not only has it becomes acceptable to ur mindset as “one those things” its become appeasing. A thing you too can now jokingly say or do without making anyone raise an eyebrow give you my signature WTF-look!

HELL...! U may actually find yourself starting to associate people around you with such thoughts and even begin to liken them to this or that… 'one of those things'.

 

Worst case scenario… you are young, vulnerable, untaught, STRAIGHT, open-minded (open ajar not the u me open mindedness) and here comes this wave after wave after wave of subliminal neurolinguistic programming aimed only at beckoning you to what’s easier than being your-natural-born-and-blessed-self, a boy/girl (in his/her respective age group), a practicing believer of individual faith/religion, a person, not a zombie, with no time for self, no esteem, no morals, no principles, goals….. just “going with the flow” (dumb-ass zombie’s should seriously be banned from using this phrase too)







U get the gist dontchu…? Hope u haven't been 'laughing' and forgotten what this blog is about...


“…when a taboo has been committed for too long it becomes a tradition.”

I’m out!