nick names
humans like to give one another nicknames. whatever you call them but everyone get's them anyway, i bet right from day one. there's no problem with nick names i must say. i like mine but the why i write about nick names is cos i ponder why is it that one calls someone else by his or her moniker- whatever- when he has a special- most likely meaningful, well most of us do anyway- name that has been discernly cerebrated, appraised and meditated upon just to have it tinkered and niggled by the very peoples who accord you the title....funny it seems. i don't have that problem but i realise many others have beautiful names that are not given the articulation they deserve. maybe cause parents pronounce these nicks automatically and universally to attempt to distract or subvert the evil eye that won't be mentioned, or maybe they just think its cute or they find some affliation to something else that reminds them of the person or maybe it's some spontaneous expressions of affection that come out of their mouths (just so like pet names or baby talk- haha-) or it could be some incident that afflicted the person and they find it amusing or something that they decide,' A-ha that should be ur name'. weell i don't know i'm speculating.
and the fact is that nick names are not restricted to the homosapiens more so peculiarise this phenomena of according nicknames. like the academy awards=oscar, like who the hell is Oscar in da first place. ok teh origin of the word oscar is cause someone by the name of Bette Davis looking at the stupid golden statue and thought that it resembled her fren Oscar! and it became an industrial icon, Mr. Oscar- whoever he is!! and what's up with teh Emmy's and the lot! why can't they call it a proper even. just the event. and this brings to another point, that assigning nick names makes for a powerful advertising tool. Like FedEx, Coke, Macs?!
This nickname stuff when looked at a bigger picture is a tool for the manipulation of behaviour. Like a company boss who assigns his/her new employee with a nick name the moment he/she starts work -so cliche and idiosyncratic, but i don't whether it happens here never worked in an office b4- is a mere example of how this assignation is a powerful, influential (and impolite) tool. and for those who give in to the title to have whatever gains-personal or social whatever- have taken the step or actually surrenderd their personality and given it to the antagonist!! it's liken to selling ur soul to the devil, ok not so hyperbolic.....bt u get my point. And for the rest who wants their dignity, justice or just want their name to be pronounced properly and not be moniker-ed they have to go though like ok i don't know what!!! haha..okokok maybe we accept the title cause we are structured such that we rather suffer in silence than go trough the whole process of taking arms and guns and verbal confrontations or bitching or being sore against the oceans of troubles that afflict us all. maybe. boo hoo. like being victimised by a cheating shopkeeper and asking," is it me who don't know how to bargain?" like instead of accepting the reality of being oppressed they question themselves. we question ourselves.
the thing is names are powerful. more so nick names. their construction have no special meanings -ok so i'm generalising- it's simply curtsey! and it's this curtsey-ness that gives it power for the fact that it has no content. for when this obeisance transits from the conciously having to think about it mind to the automatic, we gradually lose our recognition of it's provenance and eventually the name becomes a habit. the unconcious mind can filter off whatever that it deems or wht we deem freckless, fruitless, useless- whatever! but if it isconstantly reiterated and when compulsion is added, we might be headed for trouble- maybe grief, sometimes!!
and the fact is that nick names are not restricted to the homosapiens more so peculiarise this phenomena of according nicknames. like the academy awards=oscar, like who the hell is Oscar in da first place. ok teh origin of the word oscar is cause someone by the name of Bette Davis looking at the stupid golden statue and thought that it resembled her fren Oscar! and it became an industrial icon, Mr. Oscar- whoever he is!! and what's up with teh Emmy's and the lot! why can't they call it a proper even. just the event. and this brings to another point, that assigning nick names makes for a powerful advertising tool. Like FedEx, Coke, Macs?!
This nickname stuff when looked at a bigger picture is a tool for the manipulation of behaviour. Like a company boss who assigns his/her new employee with a nick name the moment he/she starts work -so cliche and idiosyncratic, but i don't whether it happens here never worked in an office b4- is a mere example of how this assignation is a powerful, influential (and impolite) tool. and for those who give in to the title to have whatever gains-personal or social whatever- have taken the step or actually surrenderd their personality and given it to the antagonist!! it's liken to selling ur soul to the devil, ok not so hyperbolic.....bt u get my point. And for the rest who wants their dignity, justice or just want their name to be pronounced properly and not be moniker-ed they have to go though like ok i don't know what!!! haha..okokok maybe we accept the title cause we are structured such that we rather suffer in silence than go trough the whole process of taking arms and guns and verbal confrontations or bitching or being sore against the oceans of troubles that afflict us all. maybe. boo hoo. like being victimised by a cheating shopkeeper and asking," is it me who don't know how to bargain?" like instead of accepting the reality of being oppressed they question themselves. we question ourselves.
the thing is names are powerful. more so nick names. their construction have no special meanings -ok so i'm generalising- it's simply curtsey! and it's this curtsey-ness that gives it power for the fact that it has no content. for when this obeisance transits from the conciously having to think about it mind to the automatic, we gradually lose our recognition of it's provenance and eventually the name becomes a habit. the unconcious mind can filter off whatever that it deems or wht we deem freckless, fruitless, useless- whatever! but if it isconstantly reiterated and when compulsion is added, we might be headed for trouble- maybe grief, sometimes!!
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