- Joined
- Apr 19, 2022
There's zero self-reflection. I started paying for my own vacations on my 18th birthday, and in my teens/young 20s were full of travel companions of the same age who absolutely stuck their noses up at the "average flyover-state American" (me) who is stupid, ignorant, backwater and embarrassing to the superior Euros because they never left the United States and saw how the ACTUAL first world REALLY worked, as though there wasn't a logistic difference between a Spaniard traveling to Germany, etc. These were people who weren't old enough to drink in the U.S. yet already had crossed dozens of countries off of their travel bucket list. When I asked them how they afforded these trips, without missing a beat they'd just say, "I ask my parents for money and they'd give it to me" lol.I don't know where people are getting that bugmen are against travel, they LOVE it. Urbanist bugmen are always talking about when they went to some crumbling Euro city that was WALKABLE and how they RENTED A BIKE and how they want their home to be JUST LIKE IT. Where they clash with travel is either through eco-snobbery or cultural snobbery (going to waterpark BAD going to some dirty shithole country to see unga bunga shamans GOOD) There are few more loathsome creatures than the UMC white shitlib woman who lectures you about how the world works at the wise old age of 22 because she's travelled, you see, her eyes are open to the truth of it all.
Just trying to make travel the same as owning cars, taking planes, owning your own house and eating meat -- a privilege for the deserved class, i.e. rich coastal liberals who will make excuses as to why they can't make the same sacrifices as regular people. FWIW I think everyone benefits from travel but you have to make an effort to absorb your surroundings, making it to 24 countries by 24 isn't really bragging rights if all you did was just drink at the hostel all night and try to get laid, yet for many bugmen that's pretty much the only story I hear.