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+The place we're staying in at the moment is on one of the main streets leading up the hill the Paroqia area, the main church and town square[^1]. It's the main way out of the city to the west. 
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+To pick a very simple example, if you're American you "know" that you drive on the right. If you go to Britain, or a former British colony, that's no longer true. That's a tiny, not too difficult to overcome, example. 
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+Imagine that sort of undercutting of your knowledge happening for just about every single thing you want to do in the course of living day to day and you can imagine what it's like to go abroad for an extended period of time. 
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+The United States is not a good value for the money.
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+I happen to really enjoy this sort of adventure, which doesn't mean it's any easier for me, but it does help if you enjoy it since it's at least somewhat enjoyable even as it's both physically, mentally and emotionally draining.
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+All binary reductions are wrong. That said, there are, broadly speaking, two basic approaches to life:
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+Adapt the world to you. 
+Adapt to the world.
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+Contrary to what some people will say embracing either of these approaches exclusively is a bad idea.
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+Generally speaking is more difficult to adapt the world to you. It typically requires much more money, time and effort on your part. Still, if that's what makes you happy, then by all means. And good luck.
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+At the same time, there are some things that you simply cannot adapt to. Lack of potable water for instance is not something you can adapt to
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+[^1]: For those unfamiliar, almost every town in Mexico, and most of central america is centered around a Catholic church of some sort and a main plaza area, generally, though not always, referred to as "centro".
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 This was really the first time I started thinking about the shirt as anything more than something for shock value. Once you get past that initial shock though, the shirt raises more questions than it answers. What is our society? Who are we? The shirt is deceptive in that way. At first is seems like banal, simplistic view of anarchy, "fuck capitalism" or the like. But it's not. The shirt isn't picking out some part that's wrong, it's saying fuck *everything*. Everything? Everything.
 
 This is not the political anarchy of historical figures like Emma Goldman, Rudolf Rocker, Alexander Berkman, Hannah Arendt or other names your probably white, probably bearded professor put on a syllabus. Most of them said *fuck what's wrong*[^1].