9 Days Outside The Femisphere

In 2012 I left America for 9 days.

I only had to travel as far as Tijuana to experience a sense of happiness that I can never have in America. When you leave America it’s like discovering you have a range of emotions that are laying dormant.

What I learned in 2012 is life outside the femisphere is not paradise, but it is a place of raw freedom. Freedom doesn't guarantee happiness, but it does give you the choice to fail or succeed by your own merit. What you find in a free society is that those who make bad choices pay consequences. Some people will object to lack of safety nets, but I wouldn't have it any other way. You can't strip away grit from a society without sterilizing the life out of it. And this is what I found I miss most about Mexico. When you first enter Mexico every sidewalk crack glares out at you. But you learn to live with imperfection.

What you end up with is a society that looks dirtier but tastes richer. The food reflects this notion. On every dirty street corner in Tijuana you'll see someone selling greasy, fatty and unhygienic food. But at the very same time the food is fresh, free of chemicals and prepared right in front of you. A single street block in Tijuana has more food vendors than my entire home city. I think you can judge the happiness of a people and the quality of their civic life by the food on their streets. In this regard America is dead.

The most important take away from my trip was seeing that Mexican society is hard on women who make careless decisions. I went down to Mexico with the idea of finding a Mexican girlfriend. I found no shortage of Mexican women from there late 20's to early 40's who were divorced with children that wanted providers. America has these same women, except in America the government supports these women. In Mexico these women have a choice of finding a rich American or becoming a prostitute, both options require being good looking. Unfortunately the 18-25 age bracket party their life away just as hard as most American women.

Young women will always be highly prized and unless society pushes marriage, these women will exploit their early years to gain as much attention as possible. However young Mexican women are still impressed by American providers. I took one Mexican woman out on a date. I did everything wrong according to the American dating/pua scene. I told her I didn't drink, didn't know how to dance and didn't like loud music. This seemed to make her only more interested in me. She liked me enough to show me off at clubs and she was impressed with me buying her drinks. The most memorable impression from my whole trip was when she submissively thanked me for buying her a cup of coffee. This made me feel like a strong provider. An American bitch would of felt she was obligated to have money thrown at her.

My first day working back in American was strange. Amercians seem like lifeless zombies compared to Mexicans. Even the poorest Mexican I saw was happier than most of my coworkers. In Mexico a poor man still has the option to eat great tasting food and pay for sex whenever he's horny. In America it's hard to find good food and most men lead sexless lives. People are obsessed with work in America and become incapable of relaxing. Once you see how happy you can be with just good food and good women, you begin questioning if it's really worth it to work a 9-5 job in a cubicle for the rest of your life.

I haven’t left the USA since I visited Mexico in 2012. I would like to visit Mexico in 2014.

Drealm wrote

Freedom doesn't guarantee happiness, but it does give you the choice to fail or succeed by your own merit. What you find in a free society is that those who make bad choices pay consequences. Some people will object to lack of safety nets, but I wouldn't have it any other way.

I think you are barking up the wrong tree by objecting to safety nets. They are required because we need people to take a long term view. We need people to build houses, raise families, start businesses etc. To do this they need to take risks on the hopes of rewards years down the track. They will not do this if they know that if they step out of the car the wrong way and sprain their ankle, they will starve to death. In this case, why bother?

I don't object to all safety nets, just government subsidized ones. The family and your community should be the only safety net anyone uses.

In an ideal world, sure. But in a corporate state where the regime effectively owns everything, should they not have to give something back?

Cornfed wrote

I think you are barking up the wrong tree by objecting to safety nets. They are required because we need people to take a long term view. We need people to build houses, raise families, start businesses etc. To do this they need to take risks on the hopes of rewards years down the track. They will not do this if they know that if they step out of the car the wrong way and sprain their ankle, they will starve to death. In this case, why bother?

In an ideal world, we would have good government providing a safety net.  But we live so far from an ideal world that this is irrelevant.  In the real world, mainstream culture and the government are evil, so what the government subsidizes and protects is evil.  That evil ranges from banks to irresponsible sluts.  In such a world, I want the government to be as dysfunctional as possible in order to minimize the harm it can do.  The Mexican government meets this goal.

I actually see community welfare more suited for a less ideal world. Government welfare requires scale because most people don't contribute, but community welfare can work with a small group of people. Since most governments are incompetent the quality of welfare is very low. A small rich community would be much more effective at helping it's own people.

I don't buy the idea that a single entity controls everything. Greed divides people from working together, so the most successful greedy are more likely to cannibalize each other than working on the same team.

Supposing one entity does control everything, there's still a large organization that's needed to support this entity. Most people are neutral and will support whoever is winning, so I have no moral obligation to help most people. All I want to do is siphon enough wealth to help me and a few other people get by. Since the organization is big, clunky and most people don't have any loyalty I think this could be done.