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Do Practically Nothing by Ahmed Zahid.
For the islanders this do-nothing thing was an art-form inherited from ancient ancestors of the shipwreck age. Today this art has been approved, encouraged and stylised by popular media. And unemployment.
Youngsters are being educated Cambridge style with Cambridge expectations. Youngsters who pass Cambridge exams, are shocked to find out the society they enter, does not have Intel corps, and HSBCs that they so fondly fantasised from textbooks.
The alternatives they find on the job market are too islandish and too lowly to be even considered ‘proper’.
What a good excuse to kill away a Tuesday afternoon and practice art, by the park. The art of doing nothing.
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