But now it's not about anything more than a mixture of status signaling, conspicuous consumption, and more and more I think a sense of Peter Pan-ism where people travel to avoid having a "boring 9-5 life," but they don't just do it. They brag. They talk, endlessly, about it. They go on a trip and come home planning the next one -- and that's actually after the one they've already got coming up. Their life revolves around it. When is the next travel. What credit card gets me the miles I can use to travel and how can I manipulate some system to eek out just a few more numerical units for travel. Where can I talk about travel. Who wants to hear about my travel. Do you travel?

There's something especially annoying about travel that I just can't put my finger on right now, but it didn't exist 10 years ago.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3775582&forum_id=2#34535119)

It is driven by social media stuff. People can't stand being left behind. They see a "friend" on instagram smiling with a drink in their hand in Rome and envy just wells up in them. This is biblical-type stuff -- the ten commandments warned us against coveting goods, etc. and now the internet makes it so much easier to do.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3775582&forum_id=2#34535159)

The Bible truly contains timeless wisdom about human nature.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3775582&forum_id=2#34535170)

Any volume that speaks about restricting human behavior will seem sage (while anachronistic) in the modern era

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3775582&forum_id=2#34535991)

*goes over there* *sticks stuff in ass*

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3775582&forum_id=2#34535189)

http://zozo.xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=3777567&mc=1&forum_id=2

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3775582&forum_id=2#34549284)

People talked incessantly about their vacations in the old days too. Old sitcoms would joke about the parents breaking out vacation photos and projectors to show off their vacation to annoyed guests. And yes, you would be the weirdo, cheap-o, or odd man out if you had the means and never vacationed, even back in the old days. They probably took more vacation days than we did. The economics of travel have changed, not so much the culture driving it.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3775582&forum_id=2#34540923)

And just because Boomers bragged about travel with photo albums in the past, doesn’t make it any less obnoxious how prevalent travel bragging is now on social media.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3775582&forum_id=2#34541089)

you may argue that this generation is the product of it's surroundings, and that any generation would have fell victim to the same, but it's true nonetheless

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3775582&forum_id=2#34541762)

Part of it is a not-so-subtle way of expressing disdain for America and its citizens

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3775582&forum_id=2#34535973)

basically every girl i date dings me for this now.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3775582&forum_id=2#34540908)

but lol at including "having sex with women" as something not warranting serious critical evaluation

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3775582&forum_id=2#34541191)

This travel shit online has gotten so bad in the past couple of years that it has been gradually pissing me off SO MUCH to the point that I almost want to drop everything and go on a massive year long Odyssey and cross the fucking GLOBE, hit 30+ countries and then make an IG and post all the pics with the heading "HERE IT IS U FUCKIN FAGGOTS - THE WORLD - I WENT AND SAW ALL, I DID THAT SHIT - SO DON'T SASS ME WITH YOUR LIB BULLSHIT AND GO FIND REAL HOBBIES NOT VACUOUS TOURISM"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3775582&forum_id=2#34541005)

we can't all go to italy for 2 years and really get a "feel" or whatever. going is still better than not going.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3775582&forum_id=2#34541018)

I may not have explained myself in better detail here - The brand of "Travel Obsession" that irks me is what I see being dominant amongst the millenials and shrews, it's almost totally stripped the meaning from going anywhere because it all devolves into the same vacuuous generic photos on Facebook and Instagram.

When friends come back from these countries I ask them how the culture was, the museums, the sights, etc. But it always ends up with people behaving like hedonistic animals and coming back here acting like they have some merit badge that makes them worldly and cosmopolitan and THAT being the status star alone. It's just turned into an excuse to act like shit.

It's what they DO with that merit badge when they are back here that gets to me - especially with a lot of shrews who think that a jaunt to the hidden wine taverns of the Aegean suddenly makes you a culture inheritor of high Greek civilization. Traveling, just like the University Degree has been stripped and abstracted into a talismin of vanity and consumption.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3775582&forum_id=2#34541113)

outed as gen x

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3775582&forum_id=2#34541170)

It was a real shock to come back to the US though - feeling like a stranger in your own country and especially seeing it get worse and worse over the years. The place you spent 11 months a year waiting to come back to for a decade.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3775582&forum_id=2#34541192)

you seem like a good bro

don't let you're generation & shrews bring you down

it's all a matter of meaning-making and for some those images and those insistences upon expertise and worldliness are filling in other voids/gaps left empty

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3775582&forum_id=2#34541213)

Then after being made to sit through CONSTANT indoctrination sessions by Fraudlies $chools back in the US and being told your racist starts to make you really fucking upset at the Fraudlie$ $ystem

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3775582&forum_id=2#34541290)

yes, instagram bragging is stupid in any capacity.

yes, you'd get a better feel for the authentic culture and history of a place if you stayed longer than GC currently allows.

but we all need a break and it is fun to explore new places.

this is a very low IQ form of negativity. obsessing about the bragging of others is a waste of time.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3775582&forum_id=2#34541013)

I walked about the city a good deal with a young Mr. Blucher, who was booked for the excursion. He was confiding, good-natured, unsophisticated, companionable; but he was not a man to set the river on fire. He had the most extraordinary notions about this European exodus and came at last to consider the whole nation as packing up for emigration to France.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3775582&forum_id=2#34630569)