America is Fucked
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Sometimes I wonder the extent to which the tedious nature of American life drives discontent in USA. It's not actually the case that there's this constant gun violence people overseas seem to imagine but there can be an oppressively mundane existence.
You go to work, you go home, watch some show on Netflix, browse the internet, order McDonalds, drive down to the local strip mall. Maybe on the weekend you go to TGI Fridays or something.
Moreso than in Europe or Asia life in the USA, particularly outside of the big cities, can feel extremely pointless and lacking any kind of culture.That's no excuse for violence but it's not difficult to imagine how people who may already have issues can go around the bend in this environment, particularly when you add in the predatory capitalist aspect.
People are searching for some kind of meaning and unfortunately the answer that's waiting for them are online forums populated by Nazis and other deranged ideologies, voting for politicians like Trump and fetishizing guns.
- They need to travel more, go see the world. Get some perspective and open their eyes to other cultures and the wonderful possibilities that exist out there._niko
- ^ Have ever witnessed American tourists? They're just interested in imposing the convenience of America on to other parts of the planet. Philistines.Morning_star
- I met an American tourist in Ireland who asked me where the laundromat was. I explained I was also on holiday there, but he just said 'laundromat' slower.PhanLo
- I thought maybe he was mentally challenged, but his wife came over and I spoke to her and he waddled off.PhanLo
- It’s the rat race brother. You get locked into that, yeah you are gonna get fucked. Greed, it really kills everything.dibec
- The movie "Falling Down" was a good illustration of what I'm talking about... Michael Douglas' character basically just snapped because of his life was soyuekit
- tedious. He gets stuck in traffic, they stopped serving breakfast at the local McDonalds etc.yuekit
- If this is what you think life is for all Americans then you’ve been insanely misinformed. Nothing about this relates to anyone I know.monospaced
- I’m sure many Americans would argue that their lives are less lacking and less pointless than lives anywhere else. And they would be right. We aren’t yhe same.monospaced
- For some Americans this might be a typical life, but that could be said for anywhere in Europe too. I’m happy to say that there are lots of us that aren’t. :)monospaced
- It's just one perspective monospaced. I grew up in USA and lived in six different states ranging from small towns to big cities, lived in Europe and in Asia.yuekit
- I've lived in some countries where people are struggling much more than in USA, in circumstances unimaginable for Americans and yet they aren't going off andyuekit
- committing mass murders. It's not just the guns, although that's an important factor.yuekit
- Cool. Still ...monospaced
- You act like outside big cities we don’t have culture. And you implied that isn’t an issue in Europe or other places. I wholeheartedly disagree. Cool.monospaced
- Any comment like this obviously isn't applying to the entire country of 330+ million people #NotAllAmericansyuekit