I had this thought these days that people, just like products nowadays, have become of a poor quality.

I had a bike when I was 10. Well built one. It was of one of my older cousins. And I think he also got it from his father or something. We used to share bikes, clothes, furniture and more over generations. Today, most products are shit. They break fast, have unnecessary features, are outdated by software limitations, etc..

I think people are the same. Think relationships, no one seems to have the patience to build serious relationships. Just like you change your phone every other year you change your partner too. Shallow values, mindset of a consumer. if your browser is slow you get annoyed and want another new device. Is indeed harder to figure out why your browser was slow and fix that. Maybe install an adblcker, maybe install another browser? But changing the phone is something this society encourages all to do.

If your partner is not fun anymore you think, maybe is easier to hit that Tinder and find a new one, and throw into the trash the many years you spent together. The solution to your problem is rather a temptation created by a consuming society. You get a new boy or girl on Tinder, and one more, and is fun...for a while...then you realize is all shallow and you hit your head on to the same problems.

Your new phone you realize is not much different from your old one. And you always want a newer one. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me always, shame on the society.

Products are bad nowadays because of the incentive of this trade society. Make more, sell more. If you made great bikes or phones that are upgradable you may be out of business if people do not need to renew them. Same with people, this environment of Instagram, fake lives, tiktoks, shorts, busy worker life, dating apps, silly tv shows, made people shallow, little patience, no substance in their brains. If something is not working well in your view, get a new one.

So yah, I feel like people are of a very poor quality nowadays. They cannot commit to something long term, you cannot trust them, they break easily.

Just a thought I had....

#rant #people #relationships

So is a very weird mix in Catalonia, Spain, Romania or everywhere else. People migrate due to economic reasons mainly, they work for less, do not speak the local language in many cases, do not care about the local culture, they just want to make a buck. Others come in for holidaying, to consume the tribe. Some locals take advantage of them, abuse the migrants at times, make money off of tourists, then complain about them, and so forth.

They start to blame each other and in the process the visual and cultural differences are easy targets: those Mexicans stealing our jobs, those dirty Gypsies, those stupid brown people, the Romanian thieves, the arrogant British tourists!

What is clear is that if people were to have a decent life, the Catalans, the Gypsies, the Mexicans, the Romanians and the rest, then there will be a lot less people migrating and “stealing” the locals’ jobs or committing crimes, and thus less of this forced mixing of cultures. Less consumerism, and thus less tourism, less short term rentals. And if people were not to be workers for most of the year, then them holidaying could be more spread-out through the year, not creating the insane tsunami of tourists in July-August in all of Spain, and probably all over the world.

In essence, it is not the fault of the Catalans, or the immigrants, or my fault, or anyone’s fault. It is this society that transforms us into consuming working idiots who then mix and clash with each other.

Snippet from Culture Cancer - tromsite.com/2026/07/culture-c…

#immigration #spain #catalonia #culture #trom #tromsite #tromarticles

Back in Spain for almost a week now. A huge difference compared to Romania. At least here people are much nicer, you can go for walks in nature....etc...

But, still I feel like I am sucked into a black hole of problems. Days feel shorter and darker. Maybe because there is less light too, so literally darker as well. But time passes by so fast the older you get. And more problems the older you get.

Will try to do my best to stabilize my life and work on TROM again, but honestly it feels like endless roadblocks in my way.

Some nights I look at park4night at the places we've been to with Tortuge (the camper)...wonderful memories. That life ended up so fast and abruptly. And in such a shitty way. My dream was to go travel with Sasha with the camper, create a yearly trade-free event, write more TROM Articles, make more videos, go volunteer, have a diverse and meaningful life, for both of us. I was so close to that, then it fell off a cliff.

I am trying my best to still dream about such a lifestyle even if it is just me. But now with my father having a lot of health problems, my parents now in Spain, the future is something that scares me and I refuse to think about. For context my father had 5 strokes in 1 year. He has severe problems with understanding where things are in space, recognizing objects, difficult to orient himself....can barely speak, cannot read or write, very difficult to use his hands....basically needs constant care and my mother who is almost 70 cannot by herself take care of him. We got them to Spain, were able to rent a flat for 6 months because in Spain renting long term is a wet dream....everyone only rents for the season. Maximize the profit, of course. Bless the Trade Society.

We have a lot of plans to do and problems to solve.

I wonder how to find happiness in such a situation. And where.

At least I am lucky that the human invented world, the bullshit jobs, money, ownership, nationalities and countries,, all of that is not all it is. In fact is a simplistic and primitive world that humans have invented. I am lucky that the real reality of atoms, evolution, galaxies and quasars lets me feel part of something special and important. It would be hell on earth if all it was, was the human world.

At least this fact keeps me afloat.

Is been 3 days since I stopped taking my sleeping pills. At least that is an improvement. However I feel like I would start using them again...

Anyway, my life sucks but I have to fight to not let it suck for too long, else what's the point....will do my best to focus on TROM....videos, a new article about AI. Will try!

Rant done!

But is not only poor people coming to “your tribe”, taking “your jobs” by working for less and in poorer conditions. The tourists are the other kinds who come to “your tribe”, not giving much of a shit about your culture and language, or even the environment. They come to “visit”, eat, have fun, take advantage of a tribe. Consumers, consuming, as we all are in this society. But also to take a break from their eternally-enslaved worker lives.

For example in Barcelona the locals feel a deep anger towards the tourists:

videos.trom.tf/w/usbuKr8CVjgv8…

Is normal to be angry when you cannot even rent a place to live in since the rents are insanely expensive, all due to short term rentals for tourists. I know it very well. I lived for 15 years in a small coastal town 2h North of Barcelona. It is IMPOSSIBLE to rent long term here. It is all for tourists. I am not a Catalan, but I can see how such situations make us think of “us vs them” again, and play very well into the separation of people into groups, which will lead some towards nationalism, and politicians will take advantage of that.

Catalonia, like all of Spain, relies so much on tourism to make money. So weirdly enough, the industry is feeding a lot of Catalans in the process. They can hate on the tourists, but they also rely on them a lot. Same way that the Catalans take advantage of people like my father who are vulnerable, so they will pay them less and work them more. Just to make a profit.

Snippet from Culture Cancer - tromsite.com/2026/07/culture-c…

#catalonia #catalunia #culture #trom #tromsite #tromarticles #barcelona #tourism #inequality #rents #spain