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Socialization in modern civilisation seems to be a semi-industrial process by which people are trained to be docile, predictable, legible, easy to manage. This makes life easier for parents, peers, teachers, bureaucrats - diminishing both negative and positive variance https://t.co/VzPirfmXLE
A funny thing to discover is how many people like to play-pretend that they are more adventurous, more irreverent and naughty (“met my partner-in-crime!”) than they actually are. This is a super common social pretense. True weirdos don’t have this luxury https://t.co/EeibMr9Cym
The village tavern is full of merry drunks who claim to be adventurers. Some might be telling the truth, but that’s unlikely, because of the Lemon problem. The best place to meet fellow adventurers is beyond the village gates, on the road, where the merry drunks don’t dare tread
@visakanv I’ve found this to be very literally true - to meet people that are doing more than a vacation, a gap year, on exchange, etc while traveling, you find them more easily where those people don’t go