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Typical cynical Internet bullshit. This article is right at home on Hacker News, where everybody rushes to uncover the negative points hiding in every positive
by davedx 12y ago
Typical cynical Internet bullshit. This article is right at home on Hacker News, where everybody rushes to uncover the negative points hiding in every positive story.
Your life is what you make of it! Maybe travel does expand your horizons, your mind, your sense of the world in general. Maybe it's just an excuse to take lots of drugs and get laid.
Who the fuck cares? The vast majority of people I know who have travelled are not narcissists. And if some of them were, well, the world's a big place. That's kind of the point.
- efuquen 12y agoExactly. The post is full of contradictions and the "Narcissism" he rails against is reeking throughout it. And that word narcissism has become such an overused, cliche word for everything that ails society. It's used for all sorts of regular, predictable human behaviour when it's meant to be describing a much severe display of self importance and extreme selfishness. Simply talking about trips and posting pictures on facebook isn't narcissism. Technology has just enabled a form sharing to a wider audience that's been occurring for a very long time, the equivalent of sharing a photo album, is that narcissism?
- Evolved 12y agoNarcissism has become like the word "offended." People become offended at the slightest thing and folks are accused of being narcissistic for saying the slightest thing that is going positive in their lives.
- Evolved 12y agoI agree 100%. It almost seems like he is jealous of those that may travel and then post their experiences on their social media. Isn't the first thing we discuss with friends that have traveled what did they visit, what did they try and what did they bring back for us? I'm not fortunate enough to be able to travel to exotic locations often (at all) but I have a friend that does and I thoroughly enjoy seeing the pictures and hearing about the experiences. It does also depend on the person doing the traveling as it is possible to come off as arrogant if your intentions are to rub it in everyone else' face.
- frostmatthew 12y ago> It almost seems like he is jealous of those that may travel and then post their experiences on their social media The author is a travel writer - you may not agree with what he wrote, but it's unlikely it was written out of jealousy.
- Evolved 12y agoMy apologies for a bad choice of words. I meant to convey that maybe the writer has become cynical or jaded, perhaps even bitter.
- 001sky 12y ago"The vast majority of people I know..." Said the venture capitalist... "Are not black." You're attitude is the type of informal bias that tends to limit the advancemnet of blacks, women, and other minorities. Priveledge and narcissim tend to go hand in hand.
- zo1 12y agoI fail to comprehend how the topic being discussed by the OP has anything to do with minorities or venture capitalists? You're going to have to cough up a little more info to back up your point? +Please.
- wuliwong 12y agoYou are literally proving OP's point about rushing to uncover the negative. Claiming the connection between the OP's post and racism is just plain ignorant. And if you actually read the article you also know that the article is entirely an opinion piece. There no references, it is not a study, it is just the author's experience. So maybe you should aim your ignorance at the author rather than OP in this case?