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I hate to say it, but this post shows how absolutely smashed mentally some city-based Americans are. Full of anxiety, fear, and general angst about what should
by fullstackchris 4y ago
I hate to say it, but this post shows how absolutely smashed mentally some city-based Americans are. Full of anxiety, fear, and general angst about what should be normal operating behaviour as a common city resident. I'm finishing a week up with my buds in Barcelona, and everything in this post is the exact OPPOSITE of the mentality we've seen here. Friendly people, happy to chat, guys and girls alike, no concern or fear and no overwhelming motive of anything. Talking for talkings sake.
My buddies are still working and living in US but I've been living in europe for the past 6 years... and I gotta say, the US has become so weird to me, especially super "liberal" culture, if you can even call it that. People simply don't know how to talk to one another anymore. It's fucked.
- titzer 4y agoReturning back from 7 years in Europe, a year in Australia....post COVID. The US is very different. People are on edge and there are a lot of very on-edge people out there. The level of not just anxiety, but palpable distrust, fear, and rage, is frankly uncanny.
- fullstackchris 4y agoI'm very much hoping it's a phase and not a permanant thing... I'm still very much patriotic because of stuff the U.S. has acheived in terms of science, engineering, and of course culturally, but recently I'm not so sure what the future trend of US is going to be.
- gherkinnn 4y agoMirrors my thoughts. The author's points do make some sense, but the broader context is horrifying.
- locallost 4y agoI've lived all my life in Europe and the article still hits home, including the growing up part. Maybe the manifestations are different and more extreme in the US, but the core is the same -- feeling uneasy because of how other people will react to me and the things I actually want to do.