very late response to something kaihong blogged, and very very late response to something we once blogged on quintet blog, and very very very late response to what i pondered on since i was young
frequently enough we often hear people saying oh i want to live a simple life, be contended with the bare mimimum, my aim is to retire early and marry a simple girl and escape to some seaside cottage in switzerland and live a hermits simple life
that, my dears, is all bullshit as the shit coming from a bull (<---bullshit) a perfectly simple life is something utopian, we can dream it, imagine it, but its as unreachable as castles in the sky, nothing to do with SHE concerts or some cartoon thing called Howl
the only way its possible is only if youre some native of some New Guinea or Africa or something. cos we, the citizens of civilization, pledge ourselves as one complex people, regardless of race, language or religion or even upbringing, so as to achieve shallow happiness, materialistic prosperity and questionable progress of our nations
what am i cheebying trying to say? means after you have come into contact with the modern world, seen the complex world, allowed the full developments of the world to reach you, you are no longer a simple person alr. Tractor Beam a New Guinean native and let him be airborne ranger and throw him into New York and let him see all the lights and cars and guns and LV bags and REC Britney Spears in tekong and tractorbeam him back to his homeland again, and this person will never be the same again. he will longer think simple thoughts, will look at his gay campfire and think of the lights of Yankee Stadium, look at his stone spear and think of AKs, look at wild boars and think of desmond
means yes you can escape to your seaside cottage, but when you try so hard to light a candle or maybe pump up the generator you begin thinking of electrical lights. when you grow your own vegetables and have them eaten up by caterpillars you think of your usual pesticide-laden ones. when you do pluck water from the nearby stream you think of tap water in singapore. when you screw your simple girl but dun want too many simple kids you think of 7 11 and condoms
summore Man was never made to be simple. hey, we started off simple after all; look how the nearnderthal became modern man all by himself! simple man was created/evolved in the same planet as modern man now; all it took was time to let simple man become modern man all by himself. so it is actually inherent for us to become modern. how can one declare to abandon civilization and live a simple secluded life? by doing so, isnt he not doing what nature and time decreed, and isnt that unnatural and nothing simple indeed? isnt going as nature intended, becoming modern and seemingly unsimple, is actually more simple?
we are all born and brought up in a complex world, and considering the above, we arnt going anywhere. so isnt it dumb to choose a simple way of living your life, as kaihong so proudly delcared? here we have, all the Machivellis of the modern world running around with insights and schemes and grandplans, and you have the humble oneway-thinking easily-contended simple simon who is definetly going to get owned by all the backstabs and backfuckintheassbyquekngeepoos. its a dog eat dog world; you simply cant announce im gg to be a simple cat and go eat my ayam brand and you will end up getting fucked doggy style. you cant simply just choose to be simple; modernity has made your life complex, and yes its as fucked up as doing Complex Numbers maths problems, but you simply cant uncomplex your life, and try to be simple, cos going simple means you die, simply
so whats the best way? my say is be simply complex, yet be complex until you appear to be simple. for a wolf in sheeps clothing will always own all the other wolfs running around
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