People really will find any excuse to leave ohio
Sounds like an average playthrough of STALKER.
I wouldn’t count a multiple day walk as a single walk.
When you get to sleep, it starts a new walk.
Otherwise I have been having a walk for my entire life.
I’d argue that if it’s conceived of as a journey with a set end point - “I’m going to walk from Vancouver to Toronto”, by way of example - you could consider it a single walk. If you’re just walking everyday without a set end point in mind, I’d agree with you.
Maybe ‘journey by foot’ is the better phrase here, idk.
It would be a white guy in the 1980s. “Yeah the world isn’t that terrible”
Dudes don’t even have to think twice walking to their car at night.
Did you read the post? Seems like he did have to think twice.
Despite the horrid things that occur in this world, I do believe that people are fundamentally good and want to do good for the people around them. The people that do evil things were not born that way.
Sociopaths exist and they rule the world.
Yep, the majority are good people that assume others are good people too. And they get ruthlessly exploited by sociopaths that end up ruling everyone and forcing all of us to live our lives along their zero-sum worldview.
Don’t underestimate the corruptive influence of power and privilege either. I know it’s unpopular to humanize the people who ruthlessly exploit others, but they aren’t necessarily innately selfish, and are just as much a product of circumstance as others. The wealthy are perhaps the most alienated from the material and human cost of their wealth by a system that is designed to do so, and they are rewarded for behaving selfishly.
If you reduce the complexity of the world to “most people are good but the few bad people ruin it for everyone,” then you run the risk of thinking that the solution to the problem is to remove the “bad people” from power and replace them with “good people.” You’ll inevitably be disappointed when the “good people” turn out to be “bad people” after experiencing power and privilege.
Welp there you have it. If you want to challenge his conclusion you must walk long and hit more countries than he did.
That’s overkill. I only need a mile and his shoes.
