HAVE YOU SEEN DISNEYLAND?
AN ENTIRE CITY FULL OF PEOPLE DESPERATELY TRYING TO RELIVE THE ONLY MOMENT OF THEIR LIVES WHEN THEY WERE TRULY HAPPY BY SHELLING OUT THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS AND PRETENDING THAT POORLY PAID ACTORS ARE ACTUALLY CARTOON CHARACTERS
Still remember the time I went on a tear about how weird it is for adults to be more excited for Disneyland than kids are
A guy sitting in front of me turned around and said "Hey, I go to Disneyland!"
I couldn't think of a snappy comeback so I just said "Shut up Disney Man"
I'm conflicted
On the one hand, I think certain aspects of "people need to grow up" are influenced by capitalism's desire to crush the joy and wonder out of people and turn them into docile worker drones
On the other hand, I've never met a Disney adult who wasn't at best a shitlib and Disney itself is part of our modern dystopian media oligopoly
I'm not even touching on the people's likes, I mean specifically the sort of adult who shells out $1000+ for their "perfect" experience at Disneyland
It's perfectly okay to like Disney (I like Lilo and Stitch, and Gravity Falls is legitimately funny as fuck), but there's a sizeable portion of people who have Disney as an Identity to the point where they will freak the fuck out at the park they spent $400 for churros at because Snow White is on break and can't sign their sign book
They want their magic kingdom and they don't care who they have to trample over to get it
I know someone that has season passes to disney world and goes at least once a month. Deranged.
I used to have a season pass, idk I think it’s fun. Rides + nostalgia = serotonin. And Epcot has some pretty good food sometimes. I never understood people over the age of 9 who meet characters though. Why on earth would I want my picture taken when a sweaty college kid in a Mickey Mouse costume
Adulthood is when you do rugged hyper-individualism at Disneyland.
I only paid 80 for mine, and it does everything the "official" ones does and more
Everything I hear about Disneyland just makes me hate it more and more
If it was really a place for kids to experience joy and wonder, it would be free for everyone (God knows Disney can afford it)
puttin on my rootin tootin five ten tacticool love handle compression shirt
i seriously hope this isnt a thing
Americans can't even imagine a world where the government shuts down harmful and racist misinformation.
freedom is getting to vote for the person who says they might fix some of the problems and then doesnt
While being able to freely purchase books about how reptile Queen Elizabeth faked the holocaust.
If this bullshit was true, shouldn't the fact that it was written by a Chinese person immediately discredit it as infantile rambling?
I've seen ideas like this one described as cognitively unstable in the sense that they can't both be simultaneously true and justifiably believed.
Sort of like saying "this sentence is false"
mayo man good
other man bad
other man based if he say other men bad
Once again r/China proving that its full of weird expats who actively despise living in China but can't go back becuase they have even fewer prospects at home.
Like its so funny that OP is complaining about Chinese people having no ambition when most expats have make-work jobs at Chinese companies, like their only purpose is to be a white face at business meetings.
Bullshit Jobs by Graeber covers this. It's a type of nonsense job categorized as the Flunky. It exists only to increase the status of the employer, a way to show power and wealth like having dozens more servants than you needed in Victorian England.
Pretty much, its to make your company or even department seem important becuase you have international connections, as represented by this random white guy. Part of that is also having someone who can speak perfect English, so you just get some loser from the Mid-West whose only skill is having been born speaking English and have him wander around like a mascot.
Also for joint enterprises between Chinese companies and Western companies, Chinese companies liked to have a good fraction of their liason teams be Westerners to help facilitate communication and generally to put the team from the Western company at ease (read to calm down the racist French guy across the table becuase half our team are also French dudes).
Can confirm. To be fair the APAC account managers I've worked with are pretty damned competent.
the use is on decline and it's that precarity that most drives the reactionary mindset
Yeah a lot of expats are English teachers, but I think that's been on the decline since there are more and more qualified Chinese people that can teach English. Like the first wave of expats in the 2000s were all there to teach English, and to be fair to them, got pretty exploited since there is basically no room for advancement and it's extremely difficult to get Chinese citizenship.
Ambition is stupid and usually leads to bad stuff. My ambition goes as far as not being in constant financial struggle
My ambition is building communism, so pretty much the same.
in an ideal world, these people would be fertilizing plants
Huh, the deposed monarchs of Russia and China both wound up fertilizing plants if you think about it
my mistake: in an ideal world these guys would be fertilizing plants yesterday
I actually think westerners, especially Americans and other Anglos, have the mental age of a 6 year old. They can barely function, are accustomed to being pampered and privileged, and throw tantrums about everything. I like to call them cry babies.
:grillman: My chicken nuggets weren't hot enough! IM GONNA FUCKING KILL YOU!!!!!!!!!
YOU TOOK TOO LONG MAKING MY SLUSHY IM GONNA FUCKING KILL YOU!!!!!!
Of course, the book has been pulled and is now banned
damn i wonder why
Racism mixed with Nationalism.
Fascists literally believed Jewish blood libel. Once facts are irrelevant, ideology can conjure up the most horrifying falsities.
Add this to the "I don't hate Chinese people, just the CCP" starter pack
fingers calipers thoughtfully
There's actually quite a a bit of science saying that Yellow Man is, in fact, Bad.
https://qz.com/927277/psychologist-wu-zhihong-explains-why-chinese-people-only-have-the-mental-age-of-a-six-month-old-in-his-book-nation-of-giant-babies/
Have fun with this one.
From a social perspective, Wu notes, Chinese people place a strong emphasis on collectivism because they can’t live on their own, both spiritually and materially speaking. They rely on guanxi, or personal connections, to get things done. Meanwhile, they prefer to let powerful figures such as their parents or the government make decisions for them.
Very glad that here in the west personal connections aren't a metric for success, nor do we allow powerful figures to make decisions that fundamentally shape our lives without our input.
Very glad that here in the west personal connections aren’t a metric for success, nor do we allow powerful figures to make decisions that fundamentally shape our lives without our input.
Yeah totally glad we don't go to college to join a pledge and meet future employers and whatnot. Also great that people here have so much say in politics and it's not like people hundreds of miles away manage your life's decision for you!
If Jordan Peterson was Freudian instead of Jungian and also happened to be Chinese and not destroyed by an all-meat diet.
New NPC meme mindset just dropped. “Everyone who I perceive to oppose me has the cognitive maturity of a fucking toddler.”
Clearly you just haven't developed to the point of being able to walk mentally, NPC.
1.4 billion people who lack object permanence build a thriving industrial society, im a real scientist and this is a real observation.
