link hereI love using google maps' street view to 'walk' through different cities and countries but at the same time
i hate what it does to me.
It makes me despise where i am, how i'm completely unable to travel to the places i explore on a stupid satellite map with pixels i've to wait to load for a picture of an empty street with a random passerby and little artsy cafes, and
i hate how sad it makes me feel because i can't be that random passerby or in that little artsy cafe or shopping along that 'indie' street and instead i'm stuck in this dismal lecture hall/4by4 room with my laptop showing a place i'll pretty much never be able to see in real life, and so i can only settle waiting for that image to load pixel by pixel on that 15 inch screen, of an area i only wish i could be at.
And then all this exploring makes me hate those who can afford to go all over the world, the very people who map googlemaps.etc and how half of them act like fags and take their wealth/travel opportunities for granted, leaving people like us stuck in our pathetic cubicles going through the motions day after day, and not being able to do anything about it, which makes me hate myself even more, cause i know i can gun it and just leave my life and start a new one, but the consequences of doing so nag at the back of my head and make me TERRIFIED of its future and
i hate that and i don't know why something as lame/aimless as googlemaps makes me feel so much at once and gives me more reason to hate myself even further.
The world's still not accessible to everyone!!
Jan 6 1:57 PM UTC