New '10 Decade Ho-pes and Ass-pirations

Well here it is, we have officially started a new decade in the 2010s. The weirdness of the 2000s is now finally left behind us, which can give us a chance to start anew.

But who am I kidding, are we really going to start things from scratch?

Of course not.

Many projects we have already started in the 2000s were actual preparations for what is supposed to be established in the 2010s, such as environmental, technological or political projects. I am not quite familiar with all of them, but I won't be really talking about those because I know that in that regards we will just be following the same trends that we have been following all this time since post-war 20th century.

I don't really care about 2011, I care more about the decade as a whole. There is more to happen in a decade than in a year, and even though every year the same shitty things happen, the decade involves something more epic and significant in our lives as a whole than just a year which rather affects individual people and countries as entities.

So, I mean, what can I say? It's the '10s. The 2000s were really really... REALLY fucked up for me, and I am sooo glad they're over with. They were full of personal bullshit and professional success. That's a bad combo. I don't really see how good things happened to me personally, the only good things that concerned me were for music and school. Apart from that what can I say? I had my first sexual and romantic relations, I wasted my teens on some stupid French bitch for 2.5 years, I also wasted my whole teens living in a dirty rotten third-world dead city (that's Paris for you noobs out there) with nothing to do. A complete waste of life. Not even time; LIFE I TELL YA!

I am so mad, so angry, so frustrated about all this bullshit. THANK GOD I live in Canada now, I started a new life here, but this was reinforced last August when I FINALLY moved back to Istanbul for good. I can't believe I spent ELEVEN FUCKING YEARS in Paris, whereas I had lived seven years before that as a child in Istanbul. I missed out on so much, left so many people behind in Turkey. I ain't leaving anyone in France because there is literally ZERO people between 1999 and 2010 that were significant in France. I am leaving them behind forever, everybody I met in France was only a fad, temporary and ephemeral. I am catching up on the people I left in Turkey 11 years ago only now, but if you made a count of the people I am leaving behind in France, it really amounts to zero. And yes that includes my family. I deleted pretty much everyone I knew from France, from my middle school, the girls I met online, the people I met at parties that I only saw once, the people I thought I would be seeing again and having good times with, the people who I know I will never get along after... everyone.

I don't want to keep contact with anybody, there is NOTHING I can actually take from France with me into this new decade, and I am so fucking happy. Fuck France to the bone, Fuck Paris, Fuck French people, Fuck EVERYTHING about it (except the food). I am fucking DONE, and that's why I can strongly and optimistically affirm that I can start anew this new decade, and I feel like this new decade can't generally be worse than the previous one.

Sure, I will meet new bitches who might ruin my life again, but at least it won't be the first time, I will have people with whom I will be able to forget about it, and I'll be in a city where I can go out and forget about it if I have nobody to be with!

Also, I am looking forward to the new decade with enthusiasm as it will mean great new projects for me at school and in life. I have some music to record and write, I have jobs to get, I have new girls to fuck, new cars to ride, new food to eat, new music to listen to! Yeah I know, I finally sound like a stereotypical douchy guy, but that's because all the bullshit I lived in France made me not care anymore, and I realize it's not worth living your life in loathing and isolation, but rather in indifference and opportunism. Adolescence is fucked! And it all had to happen in one giant slap over 11 years. I am so glad I am an indifferent person now, I can laugh in the face of trouble, I can finally realize nothing isn't as bad/as good as everyone claims it is. I don't take offence to insults and bad words anymore, and if someone is a dick to me I really don't care at all since I LIVED IN FRANCE. France was like my Viet Nam. Nothing can top it. I remember before I used to hate Turkey, but now I am so glad I'm back, and even though I find the same flaws in Istanbul as in the 90s, I don't care anymore after all the bullshit I had to put up with in Paris. Turkey is beautiful by comparison. I believe France was my downfall, my rock-bottom, the worst thing that could happen to me. Let's see if I can hit rock bottom again in life, but let's not hope for it to be this decade.

I would like now to appeal to a more general audience and quickly list some things that come along with this new decade. Let's start off with the neutral things about this decade:

-Only 100 years ago, in 4 years, WWI had started

-I am born in 1988, this is the equivalent of being born in 1888 and moving into the 1910s, the dawn of a new century.

-We cannot speak of the 80s anymore as "20 years ago"; it's now 30 years ago! Our sense of time is mentally still stuck in the 2000s/90s, so it's easy to say 20 years ago when we actually mean 30 years ago speaking of the 80s. The 70s used to be "30 years ago". Now, "20 years ago" relates to 1991! Feeling old yet gramps?

-Kids born in the 90s are now finally starting to dissolve within our young-adult public. Like I said if you're born in 1991 you'd be 20 this year now, so you welcome to the world of "When I was your age". I know I've been using that phrase for a while now.

-I still have memories from 20 years ago, and yet I feel like they happened only recently. I think this is what it means not to see time fly.

-10 years. 10 years. 10 years. Got that in your mind now? Does that seem like a big number? Well guess what, 10 years ago was ONLY 2001!! Today, 10 years ago, the World Trade Center was still there and America was less annoying to travel to. Only 10 years ago. Fun Fact: during the terrorist attacks of 9/11 I had come back home and I watched The Nutty Professor with Eddie Murphy (not actually WITH him, but he was in the movie, and it was in French). Another Fun Fact: I only knew about the World Trade Center by playing Sim City 3000, I never actually knew where it was or what it was.

-Ok let's see if I can fit another one in here; look at the number 2000. Remember the novelty of the year? Yeah. Nostalgic huh.

Alright now let's follow up with the bad things that are to come:

-So the 2000s saw the rise of way too many terrible and useless faddy artists. Many of them were part of the early 2000s culture, while the others, who are still out and about today, are more representative of the late 2000s culture. Many new artists are to come up, and boy are they getting crappier by the dozen. I can't imagine what god-awfulness the 10s are going to bring us, and since we're moving towards a neo-retro cultural twist, we're going to see a lot of artists with exuberant displays like in the 80s, and with new technologies who knows, it might be customary to see a singer with a dress made entirely of sugar cubes or chocolate that doesn't melt.

-I won't say much about politicians but I will say this; it won't change much. History has shown that times change yet remain the same. All I'm afraid of is that we get new presidents in the US that can only bring the US in two different ways: more patriotism and bullshit like it was the case throughout the 2000s with George W. Bush, or something more liberal and more open to the new century and world matters like.... uh... maybe Kennedy? Anyway. US politics are still unpredictable, let's just hope we don't waste our lives with another Bush-alike.

-Speaking of politics, maybe our perspective on terrorism is going to switch and we will be having a brand new organisation to deal with. I am hoping for an attack on Paris.

-We will be having more natural disasters and other types of shitty catastrophes like oil spills. The 2000s records to have had the MOST oil spills ever, it's amazing! We had one just at the beginning of 2000 in France! Thanks for the inauguration assholes!

-Remember that once one country will be hit with, say, a hurricane, we will forget about as soon as another country will be hit with something else like, say, an earthquake. If I'm predicting this now, it's cos I'm good. I told you so.

This is a rather vague and non-exhaustive citation, but I'm sure you can fill in the rest, and maybe agree with some points in here. I can't really list the positive things because as you know I'm a pessimist and I have no faith in humanity. The positive things to me happen personally on small scales, in everyday form. The positive things will be up to YOU.

Thanks for reading, I'm hoping to have brought down your expectations to a more realistic level and if you're depressed remember; you can't get any worse!

GOOD NIGHT FUCKERS!!

Teoman

I love being an asshole

Gotta love the concept of Teoman:

Chethika

hey

11:36amTeoman

hi

11:36amChethika

do u rem me??

11:37amTeoman

whaddya care

11:37amChethika

i wudnt wnt to tlk to u if u dnt rem me

11:37amTeoman

then why u come talk to me?

11:37amChethika

lol bec i rem u

11:38amTeoman

who doesnt

11:38amChethika

wut ever ....kp ur attitude for ur self..no wonder no one rili liked u at school

wut everrrrrr

11:38amTeoman

ouuh someone's jealous

sorry i dont have the same fame as u

11:39amChethika

dnt bother replyingggg...

11:39amTeoman

well i did! whatcha gonna do about it?

11:39amChethika

i dnt wnt to tlk to loosers cyaaaa

11:39amTeoman

well u came here first

shouldve thought of that before

Funny how people can take dicks but can't take jokes.

I hate msn

God I hate MSN and online chatting;

sandra says:

ok i talked to her and she said that she give ur msn to this person on her msn sry

!¦[Gø®ëƒå¢€69]¦! Wake up and smell the slim fast bitch! says:

... huh?

sandra says:

yea

Jeepers, why, tis a *facepalm*, of course!

On humanity and Facebooks… but… like… real quick, dude.

It should be pretty clear by now that I have no faith in humanity. Humans piss me off, society is stupid, and hell is other people. I have lived for 21 years and yet few are the ones who I have managed to keep (close or not) in my entourage because I believe they are the people who the future will want more of; they are the people I want to see in the media or in institutions around the world, telling others what to do.

First off you might have noticed that I added an ‘s’ to Facebook. This is a call on people saying the ‘internets’, but also because there are several community and social websites out there. But with Facebook, we really have started (notice STARTED) to exhibit people from under their rocks and now everybody’s using Facebook for everything; for friends, for work, for your family… and that’s the problem. What happens with so many people free to roam around expressing their bullshit, and having others blindly accepting their input without debate/correction/logic/thought. My parents want to add me on Facebook, but if I started explaining to them why “you can’t just add parents on Facebook, in fact nobody should” they’re gonna ask me “But why? I’m your mom!” and that will be exactly the point. Another point are the French people who think Facebook is MSN on a website. Dumbasses. And what can I say about people who ‘comment’ on your wall post instead of ACTUALLY posting on YOUR wall in order to reply?? Pssh, learn the fucking ways dude!

But I’m also talking about all those groups on Facebook and websites around it that parody Facebook. Lamebook, Failbook, groups about the stupidity of some people, the “Overheard at” groups where people post the wisdom of some of the earth’s dumbest people in their school, all these show that the stupid people are being exposed more and more. We are seeing more of what some of the pulp of our worldly society is made of.

And it’s fucking scary.

People don’t know how to spell anymore, if they don’t they also ignore the automatic corrector or whoever corrects them. What is to blame for this? Many things, but I don’t wanna talk about that. It’s maybe not their fault they’re stupid, but what I’m trying to get that is that they’re OUT THERE and they’re coming out!

There are two ways Facebook could end up in the future (amongst others of course but this is just vague speculation):

1-The stupid people are exposed, and more and more services become available to them (Facebook, Twitter etc) that enable them to express themselves casually everyday. In the end, the more services come up, the more people are gonna have access to these things and show off their stupidity. The smart people would have already moved on to either using Facebook occasionally, or they might have found their own community to express themselves amongst others, without the stupid people. This here already spreads into two branches; either these stupid people learn with time through the wisdom of the ACTUAL smart people that are on these websites, or they actually become dumber because they’re sharing their dumb shit with other dumb people and it becomes a loop and a repetition of Dumb on Dumber on Dumberer.

2-The stupid people are exposed, and more and more people realise this from these services and realise that they are becoming lamer and lamer. You already have communities like 4chan which is the asshole of the internet, but that’s good; it’s exclusive, there are inter-geeky conflicts within those websites, and that’s good because it doesn’t concern us or the everyday people or people who actually care about their lives. But if the stupid people get exposed on the internet like this, more people will learn from it and try not to do these things anymore and will try to learn. I don’t know which solution will work the best, but I sincerely hope this second one will. But, knowing humanity, and since I have no faith in it, we might be at the beginning of a plot twist typical of the 21^st century which touches deep into psychology, sociology, anthropology, technology, and many other logies.

What can we do? How can we ‘not dumb people’ come up with ways to expose this stupidity in order for people to learn from it? It’s scary because when you think these dumb people are exposed they’re gonna start nosing around and fuck shit up, it’s like the village idiot in the nuclear power plant (oh hey Homer), and even though the end would hopefully not be a nuclear holocaust, I just hope things are appropriately taken care of for these people; either you teach them or you ditch them, but make sure they are far from ‘Real’ society that makes the world go round.

Either there are more stupid people today, or there are more exposed stupid people out there today. Let’s just hope the concept of education is correct, and that people are generally smarter today than they used to be. But something tells me human will always be primitive and stupid compared to animals, no matter how much history, science, or math they learn, we will still be humans and suck at life.

I am soooo grateful to my teachers for having properly taught me English and the way things are, thank god I don’t believe ‘through’ and ‘threw’ are the same thing and finish everything with a lol or a haha.

BTW can you believe there actually is a DVD box in France for Christmas in a limited edition, it’s a collection of classic French comedies. The collection is called ‘LOL’. Thank you France for borrowing the dumb concept of the internets and Americans and blindly applying it to a marketing technique because “That’s what’s in at the moment, kids say LOL all the time”. Nice going you fucking idiots.

Teoman's Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs.

I would like to start by saying that I CAME UP WITH THE HIERARCHY OF NEEDS. At least, not THE hierarchy of needs, but what I call “my levels of establishments in life”.

Let me explain the situation.

I lived in France as a teen for seven years, and seven years of frustration and loops in time (no forward motion, just a circle of bullshit and boredom, repeated) got me thinking about several things back then that are the founding basics of what I believe in today.

I was always very frustrated with not getting what I wanted in France, especially from my parents (teens huh). We lived in the 17^th district, which is pretty damn good, especially us who were upper middle class people. We paid 2000 bucks a month for the rent. I don’t think you’d get such a small place for such a big price anywhere else in the world except in Russia and maybe Japan.

So as an upper middle class kid I had clothes, TV, a computer, the needs right. But for some reason, my parents kept on buying the crappy food brands I always hated. They would buy me cheap products, I remember being traumatized with a terrible terrible terrible brand called Leader Price. They sell virtually the same shit as brand name products, only cheaper financially and qualitatively. I remember myself telling them continuously to stop this massacre and get me REAL cookies, REAL juices, REAL shit. Instead all I got was Gravy Ways, M&N’s, Butterthumbs and Two Musketeers.

My whole family was even affected by my frustration, and that’s when we get to the juicy part.

My cousin, who is some close-minded, one-way-thinking, commie-embracing, no-to-money-but-I-still-have-a-job-and-a-rent-to-pay saying hypocritical person, like many French people, had her word to say on that;

“You have NO IDEA how lucky you are!! There are people in this world who would KILL to have Leader Price!! There are kids who would love to have what you have!”

Oh sure, you know, I had a computer, a TV, a bed, a house, but I’m LUCKY to eat Leader Price?? I feel luckier just searching for STDs on Google, on the computer that I HAVE, bitch! (I didn’t say that but that’s what I’m still thinking today). Isn’t that ironic, that we focused on living needs (such as our furniture) more than basic needs such as food in my house?

So I heard the same song many times, that I’m lucky this, that other people that, and my cousin even told me “some people don’t even have a BED!!”

So now we’re in business. I got really frustrated with all this bullshit, and it then came to me;

Some people don’t even have a bed. Sure, I’m very sorry for them, I am in fact very grateful for my bed, and my roof, but see the thing is I HAVE A FUCKING BED, THEY DON’T so IT’S NOT THE SAME THING!

You can’t compare me to some guy who is on a completely different level of living! You can’t compare me to people who don’t have houses cos I DO! Our needs are COMPLETELY different, even if the goal and motivation is the same, but it is NOT the same level!! Their future goal is to find a house, or a home, comfort. I already have all this, so wouldn’t it be logical for me to move on higher up in my ‘life goals’, such as oh I don’t know focusing on my FUCKING HIGH SCHOOL work, cos I go to school??? If I already have a bed and a house, isn’t it a given that I should get the food that comes with it appropriately, since that is on a basic level? Cos see… I also go to school! Betcha that dude without a bed doesn’t even have a school huh? Well I do, so IT’S NOT THE SAME THING! So stop fucking comparing elephants and airplanes! Get real, bitch!

And so that was the concept that I came up with on my own, because of annoying French people who just wanted to make a point but failed at it. This WILL be on the exam, kids, word for word!

Then later on, forward to last year, I expressed this frustration with my shrink, and she told me that this concept already existed Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. When she told me I felt so confirmed, so well-thought and so… right. It feels good to be right. I just wanted to swim back across the ocean, slap those bitches and say “HAH! IN YO FACE! I WAS RIGHT!!” And it’s even better for me since I never read books. I only learn from what I see, hear, and think, not what people tell me (whether it be oral or written). So coming up with a famous theory on my own is like re-inventing history (to some extent of course).

Imagine you were having fun with physics and came up with the theory of relativity all over again, all by yourself, without knowing? Wouldn’t you like that?

However, my idea was originally more of a ‘level of life goals’ than a pyramid or a hierarchy of need, something that makes you go on in life. First you start with a Bed, to sleep, because you can’t necessarily find a house. You need at least to find a place to sleep first. Then a place to live (a Roof), once you have that you gotta build up your inventory (Furniture) for basic living on both short-term and long-term bases. Once you have established comfort, a stable ‘HQ’ for you, you can go on with your other ‘life goals’ such as education, a job, or socialising.

As you move up you go up those levels, you go from a house to, say, a Car, or a Promotion, or Hi-Tech equipment, and depending on what you have already established in your life, in your levels, your next steps and levels are gonna alter depending on what you need next and what you have. All our needs are different though, so my theory is more of a concept, an Idea, rather then a theory, a categorisation, because Maslow also includes inner needs such as self-esteem or sexual accomplishments. But my idea is more of a ‘living life everyday’ thing rather than ‘establishing yourself as a person in life’, if you see the difference.

Plus I think more of a tree than a pyramid, because there are many branches you can choose once you have established one level for yourself. It’s like in RPGs where you pick a skill/specialty once and you can choose whether you wanna continue upgrading it or branch off to some new skill or specialty to learn.

I think it makes perfect sense, at least to me. I came up with it at 15-16 years old. If you were in my shoes, maybe you’d understand better why this all matters. But ooooooooooh well. What can you do when a spoilt white kid goes on a rampage? I’m still proud of myself, jerk!