Listen! I know there are some
hopeless people in these hangouts (campehs), folks who’re infected with folly,
but expect other people to take antibiotics on their behalf; third class
junkies that decent people tend to avoid, but to them, that evasion is like
you’re scared of them.
But that’s not the point I want
to make on here. I think I was disrespected, and I happen to be a concerned
‘campeh-dweller’ who finds it really unfair when folks make a generalised claim
that all campeh-addicted people are no different, that we have so much time on
our hands that we tend to allocate ourselves the luxury of foolishness,
careless talks and crude jokes.
I believe someone needs to put it
in plain words and for the attention of those pseudo-intellectuals that pass
such judgements, that not everyone that ‘campehs’ is irresponsible in conduct,
that some of us are even more responsible than some of you that perhaps think
irresponsibleness belongs to us.
In fact, do you know what we also
think? We think it is beside the point and totally misplaced to pretend to have
all the ideas needed to salvage us, when all you do in the process of defining
those ideas into strategies is to quarrel about/over words, resulting in
endless preliminary versions of confused strategies that end up disused in computer
hard drives.
Like the other day I listened in
to what they call an “intellectual discussion,” and guess what? These strangely
educated people talked at inordinate length, assessing the appropriateness of
three words: ‘key’, ‘core’ and ‘generic’, intended to be prefixed to a certain
skill. Can you imagine; it took them donkey’s hours debating whether to call
that skill a ‘key-skill’, ‘core-skill’ or ‘generic-skill’. In the end they
couldn't even reach a consensus, but artfully said they've agreed to disagree.
Screw that! If it were my crew,
rather than that kind of verbal onslaught or intellectual-masturbation, we’ll
agree in five minutes, or just say ‘whatever’ and move on. So I guess we’re not
as lavish of invaluable time as claimed.
FOR THE RECORD, I have nothing
against intellectuals; I have seen legit ones, and I admire those who've been
through it all, earned their scholarly successes and have an undeniable
street-cred. They are not into that pointless exhibition of scholarly airs. I
believe if you call yourself an intellectual and you cannot offer, create or
show anything for it, other than that thing hanging on your wall, and perhaps
caught up in that aggressive and competitive struggle for bigger jobs and
positions rather than creating them, then you’re not worth your salt.
Some of them, instead of being
solidly indicative of what they learned at their ivory towers, they’ll be
talking garbage about people whose preferences do not go well with that
stereotypical clean-cut image. Yeah, if you’re not short haired, combed or
cleanly shaved, you don’t talk with class, or you’re not the “jacket and tie”
obsessed type, then forget about being worthy of an esteemed lifestyle; and
even worse if you resemble a pothead.
Sometimes I wish some of them are
willing to get off their high horses, pay a quick visit or two to one of these
‘campehs’, they’ll be amazed by the wealth of common sense they can derive
benefit from, and perhaps overstand how effectual the supposed hard life is....Like seriously, the kind of knowledge and wisdom you can
gain by being a part of these ‘campehs’, you will get your head explode if you
think you can read it all from the book. Nothing beats talking about issues
while sipping that ‘Ristic Warga’(Green tea) - and of course with little gossip…lol
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