As a child when I saw my first escalator it was impressive. However, to use it was just simplicity. The only thing that kind of made it strange was getting on and off, sort of like stepping off a slow moving car, changing from roller skates to walking shoes after five hours of roller skating. An odd feeling to be sure but not difficult.
What really puzzled and intrigued me was how it all functioned, the mechanics of it, what made it move (motors I assumed), and how the steps interlocked and slid into each other. I was also concerned that at the transitions, especially on exiting that the dang thing might pinch my shoes and hurt me so I was always careful to step over that transition area to avoid getting my shoes caught.
But, these people seem to be completely clueless. It's like they can't even figure out how to use them at all. What, they never jumped off a moving cart or donkey? It's the same issue.
What moving "cart"? Niggers are unique for talking hominids; they never invented a wheel.
LOL. oh fuck, you're right. Then fuckers still make their women walk ten miles with a bucket of water on their heads.
Yet they use mobile phones, computers, cars, etc. But something is deeply wrong, deeply inside they are primitive savages unable to accept new concepts. Long time ago I have opportunity to see ( white ) people which first time see and use escalators. They maybe see this on pictures or TV, but never in real. Some of them show little discomfort, step slowly with caution..... nothing special in such situation. In short, different mindset.
Totally. That was my first experience with an escalator at five years old. First a bit of caution because I wasn't sure if it was totally safe and worried for my feet getting pinched. My grandmother also warned me to not mess about with the moving handrail which could maybe grab cloth and pull my fingers in at the end.
After that, I relished when she would take me with her to the department store and would happily use the machine and even when older I would run off, look for an escalator and then ride up and down a couple times. I was fascinated by the many leaves on the steps that slid smoothly into each other to transition to the lower or upper floor. Very nicely made.
These Africans are really slow to understand.
Here's something I notice about the difference between African and Western cultures. First, we created a system for a man to invent something, improve on it and or market it and make a profit. Often, a huge profit with licensing and what not legal methods.
This is, and the free market system is what I think created our modern society. Only an organized and fair society can create such a system where a thinking creative mind can make something and get rich. That's a huge motivation to create and innovate. The system sets the creative mind free because it harnesses his greed and turns it into something positive. Yes, there are problems when some people are unscrupulous but we have laws that allow those people to be punished or once their product is found to be at fault, it's quickly abandoned for something better.
Blowing smoke up your ass for health reasons used to be a real thing, until people figured out it does fuck all to help you. You can look up this device online if you doubt this was ever a real thing. Selling radioactive plates and other things used to be quite popular, but our system exposed it as a hazard and now it's not a thing.
Africans on the other hand, in general, sort of lived without a writing system for the most part unless forced on them, engaged in cannibalism openly and even as recently as 2005 on camera in Liberia.
Their lack of universal education has hampered any effort to advance them culturally. Their lack of basic standards for freedom and personal rights contributes to a brute force culture. Never mind inventing clever labor saving devices, they can't even accept such ideas as leaving power lines up for the common good of all people. They will scrap their power lines to cash in so they can buy food and burn over a charcoal fire. They will trash their forests just to make cooking charcoal. Never mind the fact that if they designed small stoves they could still use wood for cooking and have their forests too.
On my Grandpa's property he put in a wood fired boiler to heat his house with pumping hot water through pipes and also use the water for tap. You'd think with running a boiler year round he would soon use up all the trees on his land but the opposite was true. When he purchased the property back in 1976 it had been logged off of all the live oak. The previous owner had let loggers come in and take all the trees for firewood.
During the years up until 2008 when he died the woods got thicker and thicker until even deer weren't doing well and we considered and started on clearing some small meadows and burning the stumps to prevent regrowth. On 80 acres we could literally go out all summer every day cutting firewood and not even make a dent in the forests. This is on land in central California. As I remember it, we went through about ten cords of fire wood a year and had posts to stack it up and measure it accurately so we would know when we could stop.
We dug two wells when I was a teenager. Each about 30 feet deep and with one we dropped in a pump that used 240 while the other ran off of solar power for the garden. Even if all power was cut we could still have water. We also had a fireplace which we used in the wintertime to directly heat our front room.
So, we had backup systems.
Meanwhile, over in Africa, most still struggle to understand the basics. They can't run a monetary system, can't compete with the world market in food production so are increasingly relying on imported food while their own farmers are driven out of business. In Liberia post war they still haven't rebuilt their railroad system that was installed by USA and their power grid is unreliable. Just shipping things to Liberia is almost impossible as their postal service is corrupt and in disarray and property rights are confused.
One western educated black man immigrated back to Liberia to work on the road system. No one would listen to him and he wrote a lengthy article in their paper about how the new roads were improperly built because of corruption and nepotism. No one in charge understood highway construction so the road started falling apart right after it was built.
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