First world reality?
Posted by Anoscle@reddit | 4chan | View on Reddit | 160 comments
Posted by Anoscle@reddit | 4chan | View on Reddit | 160 comments
Ahueh@reddit
Pretty accurate though. When people say that traveling gives you a new perspective on the world, they mean that you should go to a third world shithole - because when you come back, it's like being born anew. The air is fresh, the streets are clean, the rotting garbage is in the sewer, and the police hassle only the correct people.
ihatemalkoun@reddit
That's really not what they mean.
It means travel and see how different cultures and people are, and realize how wide and wonderful the world is and how the things we think we know are really just our way of living.
But personally I just travel to a resort where I sip mango juice and unerve other hotel guests with my tattoos and disgusting scars.
DrSeussOfPorn82@reddit
And that is the primary reason why globalization should be so problematic to everyone, regardless of political affiliation. By melding all cultures together, each one is reduced to a mere echo of it what it really was. Don't believe me? Just go to a Powwow sometime and see what all tradition and culture will be reduced to if this course continues.
ihatemalkoun@reddit
Wtf cares.
Holding on to old cultures is just holding on to outdated shit for the stake of nostalgia. New cultures develop you know. There's nothing about traditional mask dancing that's actually worse or better than tik tok dancing. It is new culture even if you think it sucks.
Just sound like an old guy screaming at the wind.
Lauris024@reddit
I often feel like I don't really belong to any specific culture, and I've heard many from my country (Latvia) say the same. We're a very new country with basically no unique traditions or anything, except language. If I had to choose which popular culture I can associate myself with the most, shit you not I'd say 'MERICA. The main stuff on radios and TVs has mostly been from US too, so there's that.
ihatemalkoun@reddit
My country has like a 700 000 history and the only culture is
(We don't do that anymore and I won't miss it)
It's the same.
It's the same but no presents
Not going anywhere.
If globalization means those traditions go away it was probably cause those traditions have no place in the modern age.
CaughtOnTape@reddit
Powwow and Native American culture decaying isn’t due to globalism specifically, but the fact that their societies had been destroyed a couple centuries prior by European colonists.
NoUBuckaroo@reddit
The world is completely connected through the internet like never before. Cultures are going to merge because of this, inevitably. It will be no different from ancient cultures merging, turning into new current cultures. People in North America do not have the same cultures as people in North America did from 1000 years ago. Is that bad? Or are we more evolved?
Legalator@reddit
Globalism is literally the greatest force of evil in the history of this planet.
ihatemalkoun@reddit
You wouldn't have medicine electricity and dying of the shits at age 33 would come back but sure.
It's the
"Greatset force of evil"
one-man-circlejerk@reddit
Science gave the world that stuff, not globalisation
ihatemalkoun@reddit
Theory of Relativity - Albert Einstein (German-Swiss-American) Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection - Charles Darwin (British) Laws of Motion and Universal Gravitation - Isaac Newton (British) Discovery of Penicillin - Alexander Fleming (British) Quantum Mechanics (Wave Equation) - Erwin Schrödinger (Austrian) Structure of DNA (Double Helix) - James Watson (American) and Francis Crick (British) Development of the Periodic Table - Dmitri Mendeleev (Russian) Discovery of Radioactivity - Marie Curie (Polish-French) General Theory of Electromagnetism - James Clerk Maxwell (British) Development of the First Computer (Turing Machine) - Alan Turing (British)
Hmmmmmmmm.
ihatemalkoun@reddit
So you think
A) one country invented everything
And
B) every country would have invented everything on their own
Or do you just not realize modern science is a culmination of multiple people from different countries working together and building upon each other's discoveries, something only possible with
Drumroll
Globalization.
Legalator@reddit
Lauris024@reddit
Why did you choose to use electricity to connect to the internet and post your opinion on reddit?
PeterFechter@reddit
There is a difference between a natural merger of cultures and a forced one.
cry_w@reddit
And how would this be forced? It would be a natural consequence of global interconnectivity.
PeterFechter@reddit
A force by the authorities to accept different cultures as valid, equal and acceptable.
Lauris024@reddit
I can't tell if you're based or a potential school shooter
cry_w@reddit
I didn't realize cultural genocide was a justifiable thing in this conversation, apparently.
Legalator@reddit
Merger of cultures is inherently evil regardless of whether it happens naturally or artificially.
DrSeussOfPorn82@reddit
It is very bad, yes. It's one thing to be aware of a culture, quite another to influence and dilute it. 1000 years ago, cultures could change, even get eliminated, a new one would pop up to replace it. That's not what is happening now. Don't think five or ten years in the future. Think two hundred. At the rate we're going, every place on earth will be cookie cutter and indistinguishable from the next in terms of people, architecture, art, food . . . all of it. There won't be traditional Japanese dishes, it will be whatever version of sushi the masses agree on and whatever is cheapest to make and market. We can "evolve" without throwing out all of the features that make cultures unique. But that's not the path we are on. Is that really the future anyone wants, if they really envision the world progressing to this logical conclusion?
cry_w@reddit
That doesn't even make any sense unless you believe centuries of history and geography itself can be erased along with it. Even if every country on the planet formed a one world government or whatever, different parts of the world would remain different from each other in very significant ways.
Personally, I'd like it if people could actually work together on such a grand scale.
DrSeussOfPorn82@reddit
No, they won't remain different. That's wishful thinking, thanks to Science Fiction showing people of all different cultures living in some technological city while maintaining their identity and traditions. That's the future you're imagining, but that is not what will happen. Close your eyes and picture Paris and Tokyo in two hundred years or even five hundred. Do you really see the architecture, people, language, and food still being distinct from one another? Its a lovely thought, but not agreeable with reality. I agree with you, the future we want is maintaining cultural identity while working together on larger goals that benefit the world. But that's not what we're getting, not now. And I don't think we could alter course if we wanted to. That train has left the station.
cry_w@reddit
How do you not see them being distinct? Those are two entirely different parts of the world with entirely different histories and geography, and you think that, given a few centuries, all of that will mean nothing "muh globalism" or something. That's comical. Culture is more interesting than that.
Sharky-Li@reddit
It is if you go to non-rich countries. I went to Costa Rica which isn't that poor and while the scenery was beautiful the thing that I'll always remember are the kids digging through literal trash for food because nobody can afford food except the expats.
Some exotic places have cool traditions and stuff but that's not necessarily representative of how life is as the day-to-day is pretty much the same everywhere. It'd be like a foreigner coming to the US on the 4th and thinking fireworks are a big part of American culture.
ihatemalkoun@reddit
Just close your eyes and ignore them they be ruining my mango smoothie and shit.
Sharky-Li@reddit
I'm just saying a lot of people think traveling will suddenly make you worldly and sophisticated because that's what everyone expects. At least you're being honest and calling it what it is—a vacation where you can sit back and enjoy yourself—although I find people get upset when you call it that.
ihatemalkoun@reddit
If i wanted to get smarter or fancy I'd pick up a book or a fancypants book. I go to other countries to laugh at their poor.
TrumpDesWillens@reddit
The lesson I took most from traveling around is that the world is just as racist as anywhere else in the world. We are one big happy hateful family.
TildenKattz@reddit
Do you wanna know how I got these scars?
ZZTMF@reddit
Proof the US is a third world country
theSearch4Truth@reddit
Nice
alurbase@reddit
Unless you live in brtiainstan and tweet something about pork while being geoloacated within a mile of the nearest mosque
live22morrow@reddit
He said when you come back from a third world shothole. Not while you're in one.
gman8686@reddit
Britbongs btfo
Commander413@reddit
Poor guys, they never chose to be born in Bongistan
Skuzbagg@reddit
Oi, it's seven bong
Joseph_Muhammad@reddit
you jest but 40% of Londoners were born abroad, it's fucking crazy
Wishshow@reddit
Kek
Osipovark@reddit
Two tier policing exists in many European countries. We know more about the UK because most of us speak English.
sparklark79@reddit
Que?
Osipovark@reddit
Sweden
Mr-Klaus@reddit
British censorship laws don't work how most people think.
It's not what you say that matters, it's how much damage it does.
Example:
One troll says "kill all [insert group]" and nothing happens.
Another troll says the exact same thing resulting in a bunch of [insert group] being murdered.
The first troll won't be punished but the second troll would get the book thrown at them.
The idea of this is to put people off from inciting violence while pretending to be exercising their free speech.
JustPlayer@reddit
my geolocation does not allow to agree with that and provide examples
Unotheserfreeright24@reddit
Well they don't randomly roadblock and shake turists down for bribes I guess.
NCC_1701E@reddit
I don't even need to travel to third world country for this experience, I get this feeling every time I leave the city and experience rural areas of my own country.
bottledry@reddit
right every city has a slum somewhere. Go on zillow, find where rent is the cheapest, and then go hang out there for a day/night.
NCC_1701E@reddit
My city certainly has some rough spots, mostly in and around run down industrial areas, but nothing that could be considered to be slum. Gypsy slums are most of the time isolated settlements outside of cities, at least here in western part of the country. Now those places are truly horrid.
Also, what's zillow and boost mobile?
bottledry@reddit
lol zillow is a site that has residential places for rent/sale. and boost mobile is a shitty cellular carrier that you only find in bad neighborhoods
Embrace-Mania@reddit
Sorry, but Boost mobile is more for upper middle class.
MetroPCS is the Texas H town brand.
ElectricSnowBunny@reddit
You don't even need to do that, just hang out wherever the greyhound station is.
Slash-E@reddit
Brit?
exilus92@reddit
ftfy
In pretty much every poor country you can get out of a crime by having a 100$USD bill in your passport when you hand it to the cop. And if it doesn't work, they will offer to let you go if you pay up at pretty much every step of the process.
vikshi_Ro@reddit
I can tell you eat plain white chicken good sir
VoidsweptDaybreak@reddit
but i'm from britain and we don't have those things in my coun- oh
ListlessLink@reddit
when you go traveling, it means you have enough money that you can afford that luxury. and you leave behind the bulk of your responsibilities
InquisitorMeow@reddit
Or you go to a poorer country and realize that the people there actually enjoy their life and have a great community despite having less.
A_for_Anonymous@reddit
I wish. In Europe most police officers don't have the balls to go after g*psies and all the engineers and doctors fleeing wars; they turn a blind eye on them and turn around to look for a white guy to fine to meet their fine budget because they know whites won't react violently.
Talic15@reddit
Kekistan
Pjotr_Bakunin@reddit
ngmi
DonBarkington@reddit
Motherfucking drinkable tap water
doomguy255@reddit
GothaCritique@reddit
Kek
tengoCojonesDeAcero@reddit
Pretty much my experience.
tworupeespeople@reddit
it must feel awesome to live in a country where even the poor people are obese
Alkeryn@reddit
Yea being a waggie slave is so great.
richtofin819@reddit
Heirarchy of needs in a nutshell.
badpeaches@reddit
The world isn't the problem, it's the people.
jaffster123@reddit
Isn't the OP posting from India?
ObscureAnimeFan@reddit
OP could not redeem.
DalinarStormwagon@reddit
Ur granma did
Existing-Help-3187@reddit
OP is kind of admitting India is a shithole and is making fun of first worlders but at the same time, the kind of Indian who would be posting on 4chan will actually be living first worlder kind of life in India.
jini_nini@reddit
yep, normal indians with problems dont have time for 4chan or probably dont even know that 4chan exists lmao
Fired_Schlub@reddit
Canada is still considered a 1st world country
WendyLRogers3@reddit
Once he dies, Canadians should bury Trudeau's head on one side of the country, and his body on the other side.
the_marxman@reddit
That's just cause the bar keeps sinking.
apscep@reddit
Lol, not anymore
sln1337@reddit
hell no
Patjay@reddit
They’re admitting their country is a shithole and are tired of seeing people who live in rich areas whining about how poor and miserable they are
YeenTaffy@reddit
Don’t give up bro. Just because your material needs are met doesn’t mean you’ll be happy. Go about to make your life and other’s lives better. That is the process to become happy.
Sleepywalker69@reddit
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sparklark79@reddit
How 'bout when you realize your first world government is CONTRIBUTING to most/all the third world chaos, poverty and instability in all corners?
samyruno@reddit
If I leave my parents house I don't have food or shelter guaranteed
funeralfog14@reddit
Bruh India is not first world. Look up the news. And if that doesn't convince you look up the local news.
jarS9@reddit
Not having to poo on the street but at what cost….
panjeri@reddit
Seriously, if you live in a top-tier European country or AUS/NZ, and have an average or better job, you have nothing to complain about. Depressed? Go on a walk buddy, travel to any of the most hyped tourist destinations in the world that's just a few hours drive away. Heck, you have the luxury to travel to almost anywhere in the world without any visa or paperwork.
ReReReverie@reddit
lonely? play a game. hungry? go to a resto. Hotel? Trivago
Imaginary_Branch_876@reddit
And the last time I said this people got offended
I'm Mexican and you need a visa for some countries ( mostly in Africa and countries that don't let anyone without a visa like china)
The only developed countries afaik that don't let you in without a visa are Australia, Canada and the us ofc
Which I find odd because we don't have high rates of illegal immigration to Australia but whatever
The point is that Europe discriminates against citizens of poorer countries and I can't imagine going through the painful process of getting a visa for all of those countries
Because america has,the statue of liberty, Disneyland, Hollywood
so I see why someone would bother to be treated like shit by immigration and customs agents
But doing all of that to visit Europe is crazy
ReReReverie@reddit
its vice versa, when you dont have food and shleter guranteed yourealize you hate your life
Hegeric@reddit
I'd rather have a spiritually workable existencial dread than have had the bad RNG of having been born in a third world shithole.
Imaginary_Branch_876@reddit
Ywn own a house
Ywn retire
o_Doreto@reddit
Living in an emerging countries gets the worst of both worlds, I have enough to think and get depressed, but not enough to be living a first world dream.
Gloamforest-Wizard@reddit
Can speak from first hand experience: Lived in perfect luxury and safety with no need to work or go make money. It was the most miserable and alone I’d ever been. Yes, having money helps with issues but if at your core you’re alone, depressed, and without human relationships? Nothing really matters.
We in the west (at least in North America, I can’t speak for Europe) have a seriously cold, unforgiving, and honestly just uncaring society. I can’t help but feel until we reject the materialist view that our oligarchs have forced on us we’ll never really recover as a culture.
Everything will continue the same of filling the empty voids of loneliness with sex, drugs, food, and time wastes. All the while we’ll tell anyone who disagrees with us that their way of life is controlling and abusive. The best way is our way. Cold, emotionless, and meaningless. But our oligarchs and upper class have lots of money :)
Higuos@reddit
Personally I'm enjoying my first world life. Have you considered getting better at living?
Gloamforest-Wizard@reddit
I’ve considered it and have been trying but it doesn’t change the society issues and cultural rot that the average poor person deals with in Canada :) I’m glad things are good enough for you that you get to ignore it all though :)
seastatefive@reddit
Emigrate to Asia (Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan) and live there. Lots of work to do, streets are clean and safe, cosy of living still manageable.
Gloamforest-Wizard@reddit
Oh yea sure I’ll just buy a house in another country and get $100k a year job! Good idea.
seastatefive@reddit
If such a house and job is not available in your country, then try another one. English teachers in international schools here routinely earn over 100k a year in local terms. The houses are not expensive outside of city areas, and your US dollar goes a long way due to the exchange rate. Unless you just want to complain about your situation, in which case keep on complaining! I mean, the migrants have no problem going to your country. You can do the same too.
Legalator@reddit
"Stop thinking and keep consooming"
PeterFechter@reddit
Americans are some of the most generous people there are because charity gives you purpose when you're rich.
gravitydood@reddit
Must be nice
bottledry@reddit
in this case, sex means "sexual media" and is referring to people who pay for only fans
Gloamforest-Wizard@reddit
That is what I meant thank you
TerriblePlays@reddit
well why dont they pay for more than just fans then
gravitydood@reddit
Not nice! Not nice!
t-60@reddit
S
Foolishly_Sane@reddit
Blunt honesty from the German.
It can be appreciated at times.
pursuitofmisery@reddit
When you don't the basic problems bothering you, like food and shelter, other problems surface. Indianon has no idea how the human brain works.
Indianon has never felt that emptiness, that void where you have all the necessities of life and yet you feel unfulfilled and desolate and then you feel like shit for feeling that way because there's people out there living on the streets and going to bed on an empty stomach.
Perhaps, Indianon should acknowledge that all sorts of problems exist and invalidating someone else's misery won't make his any better or worse.
Zealousideal-Talk787@reddit
That or he just needs to be topped
bottledry@reddit
what no bobs or vagene do to a man
victor4700@reddit
Absolute zero vagene
FormalApplication103@reddit
post the cat
TerriblePlays@reddit
goon
maikki2001@reddit
The joker treatment
physicscat@reddit
Volunteer to help other people.
PeterFechter@reddit
It's lonely at the top
Phil_T_Hole@reddit
"Google Laslow's hierarchy of needs, instead of shitting in the street and raping everything that looks like a woman"
PersonalityDeep4878@reddit
Glass pooland and turn it into a parking lot.
AutoJannietator@reddit
I'm depressed because the Indians are here too.
April_Fabb@reddit
Being poor and depressed is great because you can blame everything on the lack of money. Suddenly having a lot of money and still being depressed sucks because it means you have nothing to blame but yourself.
AutoJannietator@reddit
No, you can still blame Jews
Thin-Concentrate5477@reddit
It’s not me it’s my chronic Lyme disease
Optimal-Regular-4281@reddit
Which is still your fault anyway. Depression is a myth propagated by our overlord to make us soy and feeble. Poverty in India is their fault. Worshipping their fake ass transformers-looking gods instead of building a road or acting like a normal being.
ShimaSai@reddit
The Maslow’s hierarchy of needs kicks in
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StopCallinMePastries@reddit
If you think having basic survival needs met is some kind of unattainable boon that only the most privileged humans may enjoy you should probably stop fucking around on the internet and start working towards bringing your society out of the stone age.
AC3R665@reddit
Remember that old meme, "First World Problems Girl"?
CordobezEverdeen@reddit
Sounds like a skill issue. Which is quite ironic coming from a German.
GaniMemestar@reddit
wasn't there experimence for rats back in the 60s or something?
The scientists would put female and male rats inside a box with everything provided from food to entertainment, after a while they notice they just got depressed and refused to eat or something
CordobezEverdeen@reddit
The experiment was riddled with holes, mistakes and has been severely criticized to hell and back.
It's a 4 funsies experiment at best.
Nocebola@reddit
Either you live in a terrible place where you always have purpose i.e. survive the next day find your next meal and develop some severe PTSD and decreased connection between amygdala and other parts of brain.
Or you live in a good place where your biggest problem is usually avoiding boredom or trying to succeed more than average but you have no purpose for your brain that evolved to avoid lions, snakes and hunt mammoths so you get depression.
djaqk@reddit
Placate the hunter brain with competitive/hard vidya, just the way she goes boys, way she goes...
bottledry@reddit
nah that only works for weak people. real men aren't satisfied from facing false threats
at least i think? im not a real man
CordobezEverdeen@reddit
Play the RRoulette or something then geez.
NEETscape_Navigator@reddit
That’s why you mortgage your house to play online poker against pros at nosebleed stakes. The challenge is real and the threat of homelessness is real.
djaqk@reddit
"the only real men are those who honest; there are no real men."
-gay hitler
IGargleGarlic@reddit
I have over 3k hours in counter strike. If anything, it makes it worse.
Killerbeth@reddit
Maslow hierarchy of needs.
You can be depressed no matter how good your life is compared to others.
We are so deeply programmed to constantly get better, improve ourselves, get more money, bigger house and so on.
Constantly wanting more leads ultimately to being depressed all the time for missing stuff that isn't really that necessary.
We sometimes need to revaluate what we have and what we have achieved.
Mama_Mega@reddit
The only reason we are allowed those things in the first world is because it benefits our overlords to improve the overall standard of life. If the country you live in does not have what the first world considers to be basic amenities, that is because the dictators running your country benefit more from denying you those things.
If you live in a mud hut, you ain't got nothing for them to take. But if you have gainful employment, you have more money for your overlords to tax, they can charge you way more for food and shelter, and shove way more mediocre entertainment down your throat. Whether or not you have healthcare (regardless of pricing) is dependent on whether or not your government thinks its drones are valuable enough individually to invest in saving when they fall ill.
TrpWhyre@reddit
Sorry but what is that piss coloured filter you have on all or your screenshots?
Sunshine_Sage@reddit
Looks like OOP has not read Industrial Society and Its Future, and he has no idea about some of the horrors many of us endure.
I_Punch_Puppies@reddit
Imagine taking the time to respond to a jeet
memestealer1234@reddit
This reminds me of that one that had screenshots of Fight Club, Office Space, and a couple other movies that said "AAARRGG I HAVE A STABLE JOB AND A NICE HOUSE IM GOING CRAZY"
funkmydunkyouslunk@reddit
Who tf does that Anon think he is being logical and shit?
JasminTheManSlayer@reddit
The solution to happiness is adversity and labor. Conquer adversity get stronger and bigger.
I don’t know tho w
EHStormcrow@reddit
That's why we have the expression "first world problems".
The only reason more Americans don't suffer from them is because the USA has been sliding to "third world nation" on some aspects for some time now.
TheAskald@reddit
Anon is unaware that this is only in the lower part of the the pyramid of priorities in life
Single-Bad-5951@reddit
Yeah, you also realise that to keep your position as one of the poorest in your country (but still one of the top 20% globally), you have have to work your arse off, otherwise third world immigrant with the work ethic of an entire Victorian workhouse will steal your place and you'll be a homeless NEET
bottledry@reddit
take a month off sick once a year and maybe your income will drop below the poverty threshold to make you eligible for state bennies
comaman@reddit
When homeless you aren’t thinking wow I might kill myself, you are thinking dam this weather might kill me
Jack-of-Hearts-7@reddit
Cheeriest German in the world
NoShitpostingg@reddit
something something street shitting
Dense_Impression6547@reddit
The ultimate individual freedom, shit where you want when you mant
djaqk@reddit
if everyone is Diogenes, no one is
dinobot2020@reddit
D E S I G N A T E D
Boski_E@reddit
real