PPEcel
cope and seethe
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Not really sure I should've undergone international travel during a pandemic, but my family wanted to see me, so I did. I know this isn't much to brag about. I get brutally mogged by the actual frequent flyers who congregate on Flyertalk and have logged 5, or even 10 million miles. They also statusmog me to oblivion.
But flying is still special to me as a subhuman. I love the ability to sit in a thin metal tube and end up far away, whether it's for a weekend or a month, from the cookie-cutter normies who I am forced to socialize with, whose presence I have to tolerate. There's a certain psychological comfort in distance, even though that comfort shrinks as the reach of social media expands.
And on a side note, aviation encompasses a lot of interesting political and economic topics --anything from the patchwork of international agreements that govern cabotage rules to the microeconomics of ticketing.
I think I realized today, though, that I might be the only person I know who has actually spent more time on a plane than time in a romantic relationship. Absolutely brutal. I wish I was born as someone else. It would be great to feel normal for once.
But flying is still special to me as a subhuman. I love the ability to sit in a thin metal tube and end up far away, whether it's for a weekend or a month, from the cookie-cutter normies who I am forced to socialize with, whose presence I have to tolerate. There's a certain psychological comfort in distance, even though that comfort shrinks as the reach of social media expands.
And on a side note, aviation encompasses a lot of interesting political and economic topics --anything from the patchwork of international agreements that govern cabotage rules to the microeconomics of ticketing.
I think I realized today, though, that I might be the only person I know who has actually spent more time on a plane than time in a romantic relationship. Absolutely brutal. I wish I was born as someone else. It would be great to feel normal for once.
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