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. |
You know you made it, when your friends tell their friends that you are their friend.
You know you made it, when people you know, tell people they know, that you know them.
A social critic is someone whose work revolves around where and how our successes are failing us.
Who you are - and what you have - today, is a reflection of how fearful or fearless you were yesterday.
In fiction: we find the predictable boring. In real life: we find the unpredictable terrifying.
Two reasons why people hate and/or fight change: (1) People fear the unknown; and (2) There are always people profiting from how things are.
Smartphones are tools which fools fiddle with when they are around people that they don’t have the courage, or, the intellect, to converse with.
Employment is the exploitation of the employer’s courage, and, the employed’s fear of failure.
A historian is a risk-terrified prophet.
Politics and Sport were invented to give unknowledgeable people an opportunity to share their knowledge.
Life isn’t really short. There are just too many good books to read in one lifetime.
To be better equipped for the tests that the year will bring - read a textbook. To prepare for the tests that life will bring - read a book.
Reading leads to knowing more. Knowing more leads to arrogance. Reading further leads to humbleness.
The more man studies, the less he loves reading
A newspaper is an oversized book with adverts and an expiry date.
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