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It scares the shit out of me. Until mass adoption of the Internet started showing me behind the curtain, America seemed good. Like it felt like the capital city of the world.
I know thats purely because they had Hollywood and exported culture, and like people on social media they only show the good parts, but still. Seeing what it is now either means it was never really good, or the good times are now over. Either way its taken a massive toll on my overall optimism levels.
means it was never really good,
Yes.
You speak from privilege to think there were good times in America. If you’re a minority, you knew that was bullshit. If you knew US History, then everything is a facade.
What you see online/in news now is a caricature of the worst of America. Normal people here aren’t chronically online, or worse, professional influencers, and algorithmic scams/busted parties largely made them delusional voters.
That being said, I’m a U.S. southerner and I have seen some shit you wouldn’t believe. Like shit too dramatic for television. Some is finally out in the open.
Germans were normal people who turned a blind eye to concentration camps as they continued on with their lives.
Just like how the majority of Americans turn a blind eye to the modern Gestapo rounding up anyone who is brown, and sending them off without due process.
I mean, Americans have turned blind eyes to roiling problems for decades.
What feels different is the curtain is pulled back now, at least for the rest of the world and many folks here, because everything turned into Idiocracy.
Americans may not be doing anything about it, but I also have a lot of family that’s sorta realizing “Oh… Reconstruction failed really hard, didn’t it?” Or “Oh… we’re a surveillance state.” And are looking back on lives and seeing some nasty shit (like bigoted aunts/uncles and worse) for what it was.
I traveled to every state in the US save Alaska, multiple times. I lived in the forests and public lands, sometimes going days or weeks without seeing civilization.
America, the land, is a beautiful and majestic place. It is full of magic and incredible, ancient power.
America, the people occupying the land, is a lie. Most of it is dusty, decrepit, and feels awful. The cities are the epicenter of this horrible feeling.
Some parts of some cities feels pretty good. Large dog parks, for instance, are almost universally good feeling. From New Mexico to Oregon, to Florida and to Pennsylvania, the Dog Parks were where I went to grab some good vibes in larger places. But besides that, I always had a timer before the cities got too awful feeling before I had to retreat back into the public lands.
My recommendation to you is this: connect with those lands. They were there before you and will remain after. They are a gift nearly no American properly taps in to, and it shows. That is where the spirit lives. You have an incredible treasure all around you, connect with it, it is waiting for you. The good times have just begun if you learn to connect with it.
Don’t give in to the manufactured fear. The world is much bigger than this, and the universe is so much larger than it, it becomes a joke. You are part of that larger universe.
Into the Wild meets Captain Fantastic?
Just another life among many.
🤪 I’ve read opium level the first time
Right…who used the monkey’s paw to wish that politics should not be boring anymore?
The 24-hour news cycle so they could have a reason to have 24-hour “news.”
Ugh
I was fortunate enough to travel outside the country recently.
Someone local asked us WTF is going on in America, and got… silence from our group, which was divided between Fox News boomers and millennials like me.
I think that’s quite emblematic. We can’t even talk about this shit in person without blowing up.
Every news USA! Why bother reading your local news, when everything is America stubbing itself? Join us on CNN, fox news, ABC News and the internet!!! You might as well buy a gun and move to USA!
Honestly if you’re sane enough to find that funny, asterisk, for the right reasons, they could use more like you
Even if living so far away, and ever since January nearly everyone is seeing how everyday that chudfucker and his cult are wrecking that country from the inside out, and really a few are very happy about it, awaiting for that country to implode.
It makes me so sad man. I’m so poor and have no healthcare and I have no idea what to do. I can’t even walk most days because of my crippling disability and I still go to protests but it’s not enough. I live in a car — truly the American dream.
Makes more sense when you look at it from the perspective of class.
Yeah, it’s a mistake to write it off as recklessness. Some very few people will materially benefit from this chaos.
Please send help.
And being “treated” to one of the ugliest grossest faces known to humanity every time we get a notification that the Pedo in Chief has done a new atrocity…
Double seppuku! Go big or go home! Murica!
I thought that was America jorkin’ it at first glance.
It was stabbing
…and a massive fucking dumpster fire.
Since November, that’s when the electorate decided to stab itself in the chest with a rusty knife, these are the spasms of non-vaccinated tetanus, also with signs of gangrene.
Andre should be labeled republicans, because they fuck shit up every single time they get power.
It’s always ‘they’ isn’t it? Someone should stop this they…
how it feels
