Message from @ophiuchus
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It took me literally traveling to SA to "see" this @Ald
Henry Haggard Rider’s Allan Quartermain novels are incredible depictions of Boer era Africa
And white encounters with natives
I like that passage. Many Irishmen fought w/ the Boers against the English as well... 🙂
I’d kinda like to visit South Africa some day
That’d be my 5th continent
@Ald Who is the most hardcore English South African that you know? Just curious
Insatiable Anglo Wanderlustblut
@ophiuchus I encourage you to go take a look. It's worth the knowledge gained and experience
@The Morrígan A friend of a couple years in my personal server
Ethnat pagan
Just go with the right people of course
@The Morrígan yeah going alone would be just. A bad idea.
Orania is nice to look at @ophiuchus
Nice people
I went alone. But I had a secured plan with connections at every stop @ophiuchus
Orania is really interesting. They have (or plan to have) their own currency as I understand.
Do not blame them for getting away from the Rand.
Yes, they DO have their own currency. I brought some back home. @ophiuchus
Which part did he go? Do you remember? @ophiuchus
All through it. Mostly Johannesburg, also visited some place called Sun City out in the desert.
There is so much to dissect in a country like that. I can only say that it will broaden and sustain your perspectives
It makes you realize the dire necessities @ophiuchus
In everything that we do
And when I talk to people from other countries. . . Like my friends in London . . They have the same sense of urgency, nearly, as people in South Africa.
I think Americans will wait until the heat is so hot that they have no choice
Americans are comfortable. WE are comfortable
Anyone with a sock plz jump on this
I can certainly vouch for how dire the situation is in London
There are too many distractions right now for the majority of Americans to wake up
Beer, football, clubbing, etc.
Like Anam said, we are too comfortable
There are pockets in the US were the heat is hot but yet . . . We are still comfortable
Collectively comfortable. .
We are definitely too comfortable. Americans tend to be, by necessity to an extent, very insular. I almost wish it was required for high school students to travel abroad- to see the entire world isn’t like a cozy hometown in Nebraska, to recognize that ideas such as the prohibition of Central American immigration isn’t done out of cruelty, but necessity.
The thing is, I don’t think it’s the distractions. We don’t have one track minds, I’m studying several things and have multiple hobbies and I’m still up to date with news, and I’m an average woman.
It’s not distractions, it’s because they literally just don’t care. You could tell a lot of these people the world is ending and they wouldn’t blink. Their distractions aren’t “distractions”, it’s just that they have become so jaded and see such little value in culture and preservation that even cold hard facts can’t move them
I agree. Americans are at the lowest percentage compared to *most* countries to even own a passport. Someone told me the exact percentage but I was astounded. Americans dont travel as much as others in other countries do. @ophiuchus
I meant less “travel to almost exclusively white resort enclaves in the third world” and more “actually see how the rest of the world lives.”
Yes. No one wants to get out of their comfort zone and travel to South Africa. Crazy folks like me do that. 😂 @ophiuchus