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Does anyone else feel alienated in their own culture? I often feel like a foreigner in my own country, and have felt more at home abroad, which isn't my favorite thing to deal with.

@johnabs I haven't really been abroad so I can't say if I would feel more at home in a foreign country. My parents were both military though so I was moving every 2 years so in that sense I never really felt like I was a part of the culture or community of the cities I was living in. I also feel like I get an itch to move if I've been in one place too long.

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I've always felt different. That's never changed and I'm told that's normal. So feeling at home is not normal???

@johnabs Yep - just the whole mentality I'd say and how people accept things too easily things and assume things are ok is quite alienating.
While it's survival based it ignore the problem and goes to feed problems that barely will keep them alive anyway.
So the alienating part is that they (parents let's say) forget to keep attacking what is the problem clearly and what they themselves feel or mention, and so without shaping things themselves I think in that way the whole 'culture' or biology is alien to me.
How to relate to the mindless follower?

Somewhere else geographically is much better perhaps like going back in time to a different snapshot point, but if culture / lang etc is going to be soon there too and make things similar it means if you don't do something to defend you know is coming and even people might want it not knowing what it's like once it's there (Thailand for example 10years changed/impacted) then things soon can wear off... which is why overall there is a battle to be won / undone for me as the templates are taking over hard / converting people and whole cultures gone / mono-tised / mono-cultured.

Moving around perhaps better like working at farms etc... couchsurfing even 1 country at a time and keep hitting the things you want to do / fix else the steralised boxed-in culture is the template.
That's what I account for in the alienation. For me parents and peers and just about everyone (including a few kind STEM folks) just didn't get it in how they are doing things and how long that will last. They also gave up on people.
Imagine a line of people walking off the edge but not seeing the edge or going for technology as the answer. It's just the falling off a cliff or dropping like flies.

People have no concept of what isn't ok... (and yes ok it's based on defective survival so it's very convincing until you believe/realise "damn" those ways are actually stronger and more efficient at killing things than what good that is left over or the toys given are shortlived). No Buenos.

I think it's really clear and just now in good youtube videos it confirms a lot more clearly what basically a few principle or lines of logic should already be set or sen in people's head I.E. THIS WAY IS NOT WORKING (but can get overridden by something else in the very next moment.

From whatever end of the nature disappearing or measured sense logic disappearing or God-given, self-logic you have, whatever, how can people not have the principles to make sense.

I guess I conclude it doesn't make sense (it just makes money)

And that is like 2 different species of human if people didn't get it already.

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