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by black_puppydog
2030 days ago
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OMG these guys are insufferable. Really brings me back to this quote by David Foster Wallace that I've been ruminating over ever since I was on Bali myself: > “To be a mass tourist, for me, is to become a pure late-date American: alien, ignorant, greedy for something you cannot ever have, disappointed in a way you can never admit. It is to spoil, by way of sheer ontology, the very unspoiledness you are there to experience, It is to impose yourself on places that in all non-economic ways would be better, realer, without you. It is, in lines and gridlock and transaction after transaction, to confront a dimension of yourself that is as inescapable as it is painful: As a tourist, you become economically significant but existentially loathsome, an insect on a dead thing.” https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/211278-to-be-a-mass-tourist... |
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