Travel is 95% marketing psyop.

Women most affected because they, as always, are the main demo for marketing.

Travel, like any human activity, can be great, of course.

But the idea that it’s a necessity and that the mere act of travel “changes you” are new.

The tourist is a modern invention, the mass-tourist even more modern. Many worthy lives lived without it.

“Loving traveling” is like “loving books.”

It’s mistaking substrate for substance.

It’s a status marker in a world where cheap outsourcing has tanked the price of tangible goods and people need to flaunt experiences.

I too like being catered to in a tropical location or by an ancient Basilica by people paid to be nice to me, but I can definitely live without it without too much heartache.