Overcoming Tourism
hakim bey |
2008-05-04 | 19:29
temos: ENGLISH,MIGRUOJANTI REALYBĖ,sociumas
In the Old Days tourism didnt exist. Gypsies, Tinkers and other true nomads even now roam about their worlds at will, but no one would therefore think of calling them «tourists».
Tourism is an invention of the 19th century-a period of history which sometimes seems to have stretched out to unnatural length. In many ways, we are still living in the 19th century.
The tourist seeks out Culture because -in our world-culture has disappeared into the maw of the Spectacle culture has been torn down and replaced with a Mall or a talkshow- because our education is nothing but a preparation for a lifetime of work and consumption-because we ourselves have ceased to create. Even though tourists appear to be physically present in Nature or Culture, in effect one might call them ghosts haunting ruins, lacking all bodily presence. They’re not really there, but rather move through a mindscape, an abstraction («Nature», «Culture»), collecting images rather than experience. All too frequently their vacations are taken in the midst of other peoples’ misery and even add to that misery.
Recently several people were assassinated in Egypt just for being tourists. Behold …. the Future. Tourism and terrorism:-just what is the difference?
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8 gegužės, 2008 at 5:36 pm
“Second Life” musulmonai kasmet organizuoja kelionę į Meką tiems, kurie negali tikrovėje nukeliauti. Pažįstamas, dalyvavęs toje kelionėje pripažįsta, kad tai tikrai negali būti laikoma kelione į Meka, tačiau mano, kad tai graži iniciatyva, geriau nei nieko. Tokiu atveju panašu, kad galima sukurti ir elektroninius barakos šaltinius. Tuo tarpu el. turizmo sritis gerokai atsilikusi, o būtų gi labai naudinga. Svarbu padaryti ne už dyką, tačiau pigiau nei kainuotų nuskristi ar nuvažiuoti, bei suprogramuoti mygtuką fotografuoti. Apmokestinimas būtinas, kad atitiktų turisto lūkesčius – panaudoti uždirbtus pinigus.