the telic guy

author   miltos manetas

location   international

age   12-100

gender   male/female




description   good   bad

looks
face, phisique, car, clothes, house ...
  if you watch closer you see the genious.
  whatever, he/she may even look as a “nobody” but if you watch closer you see the genius.
Sometimes very tall and sometimes even too short. Clothes : in the best case scenario, a mixture of designer clothes but with not real taste and they wear them with exhibitionism. Worst case : his/ her clothes, bought in a flee-market . House : they love their house. They are proud of it . They have many personal objects and they are proud of their tech . They usually have bad paintings on their walls and good design objects that go proud for. Every time he/she moves to another place, he/she brings all that trash with him/her

society interaction
sex, love, marriage, parents, friends ...
  Lot’s of extra-marital affairs .
Very poetic and warm people.
  Usually, the male telics like females, the female telics like male people and the gay telics like gay people. They don't mix their genter...
many of them married, they have very good friends that they carry them from their past , new friends based on how funny they are. They keep touch with any old useless relationships, family etc.

activities
job, hobby, sport, illegal ...
  They love drugs, but they don't search for them.
They don’t have time...
Thy read a lot of books and continue educate themselves all the time.
  They have jobs :They teach to universities or work in companies or in internet enterprises. They invest their money in the wrong -in a financial sense-projects and they lose them, or even worst, they multiply their money and they buy more bad taste stuff.

character
motivation, temperament ...
  They care for culture or art and they are really interested about other people.   They get often depressed and suicidal and they believe that the future owns them a revalation.
they are not lazy, and they really like to socialize They watch CNN all the time and subscribe in mail lists. Did I mention that they like videogames ? They go crazy for videogames. But they feel guilty to play much so they forget how much they like them.

future
what will this personality stereotype achieve ...
  Our culture is a Telic culture.
Science, technoloy etc: all this is Telic.
  Our culture is a Telic culture.
Science, technoloy etc: all this is Telic.




examples

http://www.rhizome.org
http://www.nettime.org
http://www.wired.com
etc
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