I'm not against Rion's teachings I'm just looking at the bigger picture (after my last trip to Thailand...). Here are a few pointers:
yes media in the USA\West suck so you have to choose what you watch on TV and what you hear on the radio so you won't be wussified (that I agree with Rion). But other than that: watching Thai music videos often or running away from the west is not the answer.
Look at it this way:
the media sucks but we still have a choice: we can choose not to watch or listen to things we don't want to...
In third world countries the media might not be as bad as here, but people living in those countries are dealing with much bigger problems (problems that they can't choose not to deal with them) such as:
Poverty, Government corruption, violence, bad health system and more.
While I don't like the media in the west I'm still happy I was born and raised here. It's much better to live in the west as far as: human rights, justice system, police, job opportunities, education, heath system and options to improve our social\life status.
In Thailand or India for example, if you are born to a poor family it's almost impossible to get out of that social situation. A lot of women in Thailand would marry a western man even if they don't love him- just to get out of there. Same for other third world countries.
In post Communist countries you can get loads of marrige proposals from women who are dying to get out of their country and Poverty...And I see many men from China, Thailand or Philippines who are coming here to work at jobs that the local people don't want to do.
And once their visa is expired they would give anything to be able to stay here......
Rion does not look at the big picture .See, he shows up in those countries with American dollars and lives like a king (because it's cheap). He goes with poor bar girls (and says it's because of his energy).
