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CITIZEN_DOOM

                                      June 14, 2006

Over the years I've taken a lot
of shit from people about never
having left the United States.

   My god, how narrowminded,
   ignorant and lazy, eh?

   Don't I understand the
   broadening, educational
   effect of getting wasted
   at a party in Goa?



There are a lot of reasons
why I placed foreign travel
low on my prioritiies.

   
One is that early on I  
developed an active fear       
of what stuck me as the 
primitive state of the                And that was before
rule of law in many                   someone I knew was
other countries.                      thrown in a Mexican
                                      jail, having signed
                                      a confession at
Then there's also the                 gun point.
general disgust I had  
at the idea of being a
typical tourist... how
could I possibly understand
a culture on the other
side of the world in
the space of a few weeks?

What point would there be
to travel to another place
if I wasn't planning on
really being a part of that
place?

Is the idea just to
to go there and gawk?

Thanks, but maybe I'll
just look at some
pictures, and read about
the place.


Left to my own devices,
my travels have tended to
be explorations of different
places in the United States,          Boston
places that I might consider          Chicago
actually living.                      San Francisco
                                      Los Angeles         Discovering
                                                          that I definitely
Which is still another                                    don't want to
point: I am apparently                                    be in Los Angeles 
an American loyalist.                                     was well worth 
I think of myself as an                                   the trip.
American Citizen, and I                                       
really can't see myself
as an expatriate --    
looking at the game    
from the outside.      

                 
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