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polistra's avatar

Yes. Men need to make things. When men can't make things they break things. (Including themselves.)

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When people try to describe how wonderful their last cruise to (wherever) was, I just keep my own counsel, as I cannot imagine anything more enervating and soul-mangling than being stuck in a space -no matter how luxurious- for a fixed amount of time with no hope of escape, and then being disgorged at an exact place for a fixed amount of time to rush around taking selfies "to prove you were there".....then get rounded up on board to repeat the exercise until the next virtual visit to an actual place...and so on. It's all just so utterly passive and almost like the ultimate make-believe travel-as-consumer-item. But to be fair, I am sure those same people are mystified that my holidays consist of making my own way over trackless bog and heather to make my way to a remote hill! However, I am sure that they may have had no life experience of that real satisfaction of working hard to achieve something, so maybe they don't know what they are missing. Nowt so queer as folk :)

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