“Wow so cyberpunk! Omg a train goes through a building!!! Wow it looks like I’m at ground level but I’m actually 20 stories up!”
Fuck, as a westerner who low key wants to go to Chongqing I am now owned :/
“Wow so cyberpunk! Omg a train goes through a building!!! Wow it looks like I’m at ground level but I’m actually 20 stories up!”
Fuck, as a westerner who low key wants to go to Chongqing I am now owned :/
Visiting places is cringe. Just Streetview it.
Or perhaps the layout seems intriguing and you want to experience / tour a bit of what it would be like to live there to help understand your own life in a weird way.
I’ve seen leftists online (seemingly) un-ironically say travel is oppressive and all people should never venture more than 50 miles from their place of birth.
Virgin Confucius: “It’s pleasing to see friends from afar”
Chad Laozi: “There’s no need to travel further than the sound of a village rooster’s cry”
Funny coming from a guy who rode an ox to India
Makes LDRs impossible, literally lesbophobic.
a good friend of mine goes off about this occaisionally lol. It comes from a good place, but ultimately is a bit unhinged.
I recall some user on here going on a rant that nobody should ever have a career as an artist or be famous as an artist far outside of their place of residence and said Picasso should be a coal miner.
I mean yeah, fair
I think they’re joking, but, yeah, that is a really weird Left thing. I understand having a class analysis about who can travel but I don’t pay attention to people who say not to do it at all. Traveling is one of the most meaningful experiences I have in life. You should still go, if you can!
And it sounds more like they’re making fun of influencers posting those videos which is understandable—not necessarily tourists just being awed. But if they made fun of tourists is like New Yawkers making fun of tourists for standing around and clogging the streets looking up at skyscrapers, or Parisians making fun of tourists who don’t speak perfect French, or whatever other city making fun of outsiders. Everyone does it in different ways. You’re going to be impressed if you go because you’re not taking that extraordinary feat of humanity for granted.
At least two were on here and they sounded pretty serious.
I can perhaps understand the analysis that modern bourgeois tourism isn’t really sustainable, but I think “never leave the commune you were born in” is a little radical. The USSR actually had a good variety of travel within the Union, Cuba has state run beach resorts, I think there can be a sustainable model of tourism.
Here’s a travel brochure of the various states within the Soviet Union.