I've been one many times, many places, in several age brackets. But do monkey boys still exist, or have witty low wage colorful types been replaced with a new class of low wage transient worker? I wish to ferret out specifics which guide conduct and perception. A person has to be perceived as a monkey boy to be one. Or are all peons monkey boys independent of how they are seen?
This is more archetypal horse shit. If people see television models of monkey boys, leaping and scratching themselves behind the counter at a coffee shop, or clerking in a big box store, while being kept in a permanent state of progressive music and no social standing, then media influence could sustain the existence of monkey boys, While the Orwellian leveling effect, with it's perfection of the language for nothing but tasks and obedience, could mean no monkey boys. Replaceable workers, not a monkey boy. A person in all cases. A low value person. I'm not seeing anything in the way of an emerging new identity. It's bad enough a lower primate's sense of self was dumped onto humankind, but maybe no identity at all is a worse human condition. Or a better one, if you are allergic to monkeys.
I'm suggesting this is a new age in degrading ways of life. It is less defined, for newness, and is eternally prone to oldness and extinction. I'm feeling good about the newest trend in how to be. But I'd rather not be it. I don't like being defined by a shit paying job.
This is more archetypal horse shit. If people see television models of monkey boys, leaping and scratching themselves behind the counter at a coffee shop, or clerking in a big box store, while being kept in a permanent state of progressive music and no social standing, then media influence could sustain the existence of monkey boys, While the Orwellian leveling effect, with it's perfection of the language for nothing but tasks and obedience, could mean no monkey boys. Replaceable workers, not a monkey boy. A person in all cases. A low value person. I'm not seeing anything in the way of an emerging new identity. It's bad enough a lower primate's sense of self was dumped onto humankind, but maybe no identity at all is a worse human condition. Or a better one, if you are allergic to monkeys.
I'm suggesting this is a new age in degrading ways of life. It is less defined, for newness, and is eternally prone to oldness and extinction. I'm feeling good about the newest trend in how to be. But I'd rather not be it. I don't like being defined by a shit paying job.
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