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KOB's avatar

I live in the US and I've also lived in Europe, specifically in Italy and Germany. I was so bored in Europe so I moved to the US for more exciting opportunities. The bureaucracy and culture there is pretty stifling. But life is boring here in the USA too but in different ways, mostly because we're all struggling to get our basic needs met.

My own solution to wrestling with these feelings is to go out and reconnect with nature. I believe we feel this way because we're cogs in capitalism and as such we've been completely disconnected from the land we live on. Learning about local forests, plants, animals, birds. Taking hikes. Planting and tending a garden. Becoming hyperlocal in your consumption. Talking to my neighbors. Building community with like-minded people.

There's so much you could do with your life instead of going on mindless vacations and mindlessly hyper-consuming in your free time whether that's material things or social media.

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The US is dying for some of the same reasons.

Lack of innovation is one. We do not have true innovation because necessity is the mother of invention, and who is claiming all of these inventions? The rich, born in a nest of money, who don't understand necessity. They understand patent poaching from real talent, calling it their own and proclaiming themselves genuises. Which they are absolutely not. They had deeper pockets than the innovative and more opportunities to exploit them. That's it.

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