Modern Architecture - Glass Steel and Concrete
THE HYBRID ZEPPELIN FIXED WING AEROPLANE - ROMANTIC AVIATION NEEDS YOU!
Meidiocrity A young lady, Mei, shares some insights into the real world of a Gen Y girl exploring Europe.
Does size matter?
Mercedes Benz C32 AMG affordable to the man on the street!
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Italy Rome's homeless vagrant problem. Global Economics
China report is up describing the gleaming shiny city of Shenzhen
Update: May 2009, FOOD COURT - the ongoing SAGA of one man's day to day struggle for survival while immersed within backstabbing gossip and intrigue in the exciting environment of a mega-mall food court. The story is real and UNALTERED except for the names of people and places. the confession
Update: Please see the Countries page to view Planet Earth as it was in the year 2008.
Update 17th December 2008: New Articles in ARTICLES page, including discussion of Post Colonial Africa, The difficulty in running a Small business and several others.
Not cut out to fit in A wise man once said: "We sacrifice three quarters of our selves to be like other people."
The meaning of loser has yet to reach full maturity. However as time goes on, the public consciousness of loser will be realised. A loser is a person, and the notion of a Loser is a social phenomenon. Not simply abstractly the one who did not win. Many never try only to succeed and many never try and their fate is to fail. However when we talk of the loser, we deal with the experience of those unfortunate individuals: the losers, who try as they might can not succeed in their dreams. The main thing to bear in mind regarding a loser, is that a loser always does the right thing, always does their home work, always refrains from unhealthy living, but fails high school despite their best efforts and is diagnosed with cancer of the lung despite refraining from smoking. A loser tries hard but fails non the less. This ties in the notion of the try-hard. Try-hard is an insult used to describe someone who just doesn't have it just doesn't pull off the desired effect despite their best efforts. To avoid definition problems, can I just say that a loser is not someone who lives recklessly and suffers the consequences, as mentioned above a loser is the one who never smoked but got cancer anyway, the one who suffers from incessant bad fate bad luck and misfortune. A loser is someone without potential without noticeable talent, someone who is thoroughly average or below average and who is incapable of "making their own luck". This notion of making one's own luck is tied in with both winners, cool people, popular people, talented people, and those who have potential to rise either through physical attractiveness or by intelligence or a combination of the two factors. Its not a fad or a whim, its the black dark side to the meritocracy in which we are immersed, its the dark to the light its the skeleton in the closet that rarely gets a mention owing to its ultimate taboo in society. For a final example of this taboo, society in general will emphasise the importance of putting in maximum effort and "giving it a go" but the unspoken reality is that for the winner to win, many must fail and they by the rules of our society must remain quiet lest they brake the taboo. |
