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"Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places. At home I dream that at Naples, at Rome, I can be intoxicated with beauty, and lose my sadness. I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from. I seek the Vatican, and the palaces. I affect to be intoxicated with sights and suggestions, but I am not intoxicated. My giant goes with me wherever I go."

- Waldo Emerson

BTC_P2P 10mo ago

Yeah, I’m not sad though.

There is no denying that America is an ugly country. Most of the population is fat and many stupid too. Every city and town is populated by the same ugly fast food shitholes and chain grocery stores. Dollar general, target, Starbucks, McDonald’s, Taco Bell, 7/11 etc etc. It sucks and I won’t pretend it doesn’t.

There are objectively much better places to be, with happier and healthier people, beautiful architecture, where it costs less to live. Talk yourself out of the easy choice with Emerson quotes but doesn’t work for me.

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Thursday 5∞ 10mo ago

It's just a fragment, I couldn't find his exact quote I was looking for. To paraphrase, he was making a point that it's better to travel purposely, like a king would do. He was more interested in building a nest egg back home and making sure the Americans would get a proper education. He did travel tho and he left a great legacy.