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| quote: | Originally posted by DJ Eco
LONG RANT ALERT
This show is so annoying, I thought it would be cool to see New York from their point of view. It's helped me get into the psychology of why people come to New York. Everyone expects big things, everyone thinks they're going to be a star, even moreso than people going to California (because most people know the chances are slim to none there), and yet New York seems that much more hopeful to people.
And then they get here and reality check sets in. There's 13 million people in the New York metro area and in the words of Tyler Durden in Fight Club, we "are not a unique and beautiful snowflake. We are the all-singing all-dancing crap of the world." I'm seeing how hard it is for people from out-of-town to come here and settle for anything less than achieving their dreams. They don't understand New York City. The same power that New York has with the 1% of people it turns into stars and successful people, it is eclipsed tenfold by the power it has to chew up the other 99% and spit them out and shatter their dreams. I worked in a few jobs in the city (where I was the only local and everyone were out-of-towners) and it's sad to see people come here only to realize they need to work three jobs to be able to survive. They then find out they can't reach for the stars and they go back home failures, in their eyes.
I'm getting into this whole sociological discussion because, in a nutshell, the Real World cast is what this is all about. Everyone wants to be something big, and "settling for" less than that is not an option. New York is like a big cycle that welcomes people and then kicks their ass on their way out. It's really interesting to see these people's points of view, from my own point of view in this environment that most of us have gotten used to ("shit or get off the pot" mentality).
The first college I went to was full of people like the Real World cast. They brought, from Kansas and Nebraska and Alabama, their insecurities, ignorance, and general cluelessness as to how to interact with other people, especially New Yorkers. They self-combusted in their first few months by going out every week (like all the "cool" people do in these New York City-based sitcoms and reality shows) and then spiralled into drugs and alcohol and failed their first semester.
In most of these schools with half-commuters and half-outoftowners, you see that divide, where the commuters band together with each other and the out-of-towners lock themselves up in their rooms after first semester and live a shitty daily life complaining about how much it sucks to live in New York.
Sorry for the long rant, a bunch of my friends are sociology and psychology majors so we're always shooting the shit about stuff like this, and the Real World this season helped me see shit like this firsthand on television haha...
If they had put someone from New York in that cast, he would have been everyone's favorite and would cause less drama and problems than everyone else in the house. Everyone else comes from these fucked-up backgrounds and, as easy of a target New Yorkers and New Jerseyans are on Youtube and all the humor websites, in reality, we come out seeming the most normal.
Just my 2 cents! haha... |
I think it's more that type of person than anything else, I think a lot of people move here thinking that the move itself will breed success. It's a sharp reality when people realize you still have to work for success like anywhere else (especially in this city).
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I rarely saw dancers at that club. Do they still do that?
... Its called the KKK. BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAA 
