BiographyType: Social critic, philosopher Born: 0 Died: Mokokoma Mokhonoana is a philosopher, a social critic, a satirist, an aphorist, an essayist, a cartoonist, a graphic designer, and an iconoclast. I was born, bred, and is based, within the borders of some figment called South Africa - Mokokoma Mokhonoana. |
Civilization is the commercialization of survival.
Poor people do not go on holiday; they go home.
A writer’s primary goal is to make sense. The bookstore’s is to make cents.
A job interview is a competition won by those who are qualified the most, and, those who are willing to be payed the least.
When rich, being poor seems *adventurous.*
A writer is merely a reader that had the guts to be read, and, heard.
Intelligence is a way of thinking, not a choice of words.
Faeces by any other name would smell as gross
Giving up isn't a deed. It is 'discontinuity' of a deed.
All civilized wo/men are prostitutes: Some sell what's between their legs; the rest sell what's between their ears.
There is more to life than making a living. Do not work more than you live.
Work is a vehicle with which man chases some fleeting destination called a full tummy.
Employment was invented to make education seem useful.
Retirement is the menopause of an employee’s mind and hands.
The employed are punished by having to do what they do not love. The self-employed are punished by the opposite.
The garden is an unemployed township-based man's cubicle.
If growing up means not seeing one’s family and friends on the regular - all in the name of paying the bills, then growing up is overrated.
We are so used to working that not working is the new hard work.
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