• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I’ll never understand the “born too late to explore Earth” line, given how much of the modern world is opaque to the average Terminally Online Person.

    Its shocking to see how many people are unfamiliar with their own home cities. Relatively few people take the time to explore their states or countries to any serious degree.

    Don’t believe these lies. Take a fucking road trip down I-10 or up I-35 or the 101. Go backpack through Europe for a season. Save up for a year and go bike the Great Wall. Go climb Machu Pichu before you develop Plantar fasciitis or bad knees. Find a gig that puts you on the road and spend a few years doing contract work in India or Tunisia or Johannesburg. Its not too late. It was never too late. There’s so much of the world you’ll never see until you go there yourself.

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      2 months ago

      Also the “born too late to explore” also implies that people totally would’ve been free explorers back then.

      Chances are you were going to be stuck in a village for your entire life tending to a farm, or die at age 17 with an arrow in your face in the middle of an army.

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      2 months ago

      I think the meme is about a semantic difference between traveling and exploring.