Sometimes we see idiots, whole countries run by naïve idiots. Sorry to abuse. How could I say it better. I myself come from a country run by idiots, who believe themselves in all the idiotic propaganda shit about the state, that running things by state officials is better than running it by people. Such rubbish of the sort they give to children in idiotic public school systems across this continent. You need to read through books to find brutal economists who name it as it should be named- they call it statist propaganda. I bought such books in a bookstore for economists.
I travel across Italy and I am finding a socialist shitconomy. I used public transport today. Drivers have showed complete disrespect for money for bus tickets. “You can pay for the ticket on the arrival on the station”- was the answer. On the arrival the driver does not show any interest in my monies. I asked once more, I was explained that I could buy a ticket at the cash office at the station.
I went to the office and bought it, from gratitude rather. Then I took another “free” bus to the harbor, after being explained by the ladies at the travel office, where to go and what tickets to buy. Wow, socialist shitonomy runs offices to inform foreign people how to travel. I got to the harbour, I booked a ship for the island of Elba. There I travelled around by busses too and took a ship back.
Socialist economy of the area painted a map for travelers. With some faults. My camping was not painted on this map. The map was not detailed as it should and I got lost, I went one station too far with the train. I had to walk two hours to get back. Someone painted trees at the roads on that maps, but not where I live. I took this map at my campsite.
This evening I could not find the bus back. This is a foreign country and everything is explained in Italian for example. Or in Lietuvian, or in Hungarian, Romanian, Polish. Sometimes there are no station platforms, as in Romania. We got lost on some rural Romanian interchange station, where our train was standing on the fifth track. Literally: a normal track.
We went to some silly lady in the office and she halted this train for us. Then she explained in Romanian, me don’t know how, but so that we understood that the train is waiting for us somewhere there - behind freight trains. We simply walked across quite ordinary tracks on some train yard. Horrible. Elderly people have to jump one meter down to get off the train at their “station”. Are train platforms such sophisticated accomplishments?
We live in this horribly shitty Eurosocialism. So, our European continental federal authorities please do something with the very poor information on travel connections for Europeans. We live on this continent and we are completely fed up with the horrible stickers in all the possible languages that there is a replacement service by of a train by bus. We are fed up that it is not possible to find in one place a travel information for train, bus, ship.
Rasta does not understand in Italian, what and where goes not on weekends. Rasta waits on the platform, not sure if he not waits in vain. Other passengers know not much more. And what I heard today. An Italian passenger phoned the train station himself, saying that we are already at the bridge and that the train shall wait for our delayed bus. It was when we were at this bus replacement service. What a shitstateconomy disaster!
I want to do sightseeing. And I am afraid to drive so far. Rasta travels. And it is so difficult in state-run shitonomies. There is Internet in so little places. Horrible. You could at least do this document, called directive, where You can order shitonomies to put their timetables for busses ships trains and then run a website for all the European public transport. If Google works with so much of data, Your European public transport schedule could theoretically also work (but I rather would bet that it would go down in first few hours).
This is what a state can do for economic system and that is a very justified economic intervention to give access to people on information on their travel itineraries with public transport. There are may small providers of such services and people look for information that encompasses them all. Such intervention in the market forces seems to be permitted by economic textbooks.
Giving information in case of fragmented markets is what states and shitonomies should do if they were not such a horrible crap able only to put a piece of paper with the information on changed timetable in local language only. Our continent in lots of places got similar to the US where people can only travel by car, and no bus services are visible. Only local people can inform You how and when the bus departs, and there is no schedule except for some sticker in some local shop. So was in San José near Almería in southern Spain.
Dear European people. It is very sad that in lots of places of this continent You are unable to travel by public transport. Or, so few people uses it that You could easily replace busses with one or two passenger cars. This is the case in rural Italy and rural Poland. Also there local train connections died ages ago. Me myself come from a region where most of rail lines were stolen by thieves. They stole bridges, rail tracks and even the small stones from the rail bed.
Before the World War II the train from Breslau to Berlin took 2 hours 30 minutes and had an average speed of 160 km/h. Today there are several bridges and large sections of tracks on that high-speed route stolen. Someone stole even whole junction in Sommerfeld/Lubsko, together with the bricks from the railway station buildings.
Lubsko made its golden letters in the history of mankind by “świnki” (pigs), its “sons of the town” described in a book by Jacek Kurzępa. These male teenage prostitutes used to offer their virginity in nearby Berlin. Most of the industry bankrupted, its ruins were turned into quarries for those in search for cheap bricks and construction materials. Recently a movie ”Hiroshima” by Paul Wilmshurst was shot in Lubsko/Sommerfeld. The “brick quarries” acted for the ruins of the town devastated by atomic bombs.
I travelled yesterday across this region. It took me 9 hours to get from Italy to Poland by car, but it required 6 hours to made another 50 miles on Polish territory using public transport. There were 4 (four) passengers in my train from Kohlfurt to Sagan. Everything is devastated, stations look like ruins and smell like if they were eaten by mold. Tracks are old, train slows to 10- 15 mph. It took an hour to travel 25 miles away. I ended up in Sorau, town of 50 thousand inhabitants, and discovered that on Saturday evening, at 10 pm there is nothing open in the city centre, not one pub or bar.
It is dead. I saw groups of young people in tracksuits and hoods. I myself wear a hooded top and tracksuit, but I am afraid of such teenagers- this is a mob that can attack You asking for Your purse and mobile phone. When walking there alone in the night, I am prepared to fight, I have even a plan which kicks to use when someone starts attacking me. Such dead towns looks really scarry. Even though local youth was quite kind, when they spoke with me.
Imagine living in a region whose Golden Era end up with the approach of “socialist” regime, that lasts (here unfinished) until now. Communists, then oligarchs. Ruled by them- poor, but bright people. Who were taught in schools about “how wonderful is the state”, that were taught to chauvinism and ethnocentrism. All the crap You could imagine. That one nation supersedes all the others. Now this people is so devastated by this propaganda that they keep their eyes closed for all the evidence and arguments that show something contrary. It is tragic. And You are not even well informed on how to get by train/bus/ship to such sad places on this continent. European federal authorities, please do something!
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