Tourism
might, or might not be a sin, as Werner Herzog famously put it, but it is
certainly a virus; a lethal one. It killed our idea of beauty conceived long before
it was “discovered,” therefore damaged for good, by mass tourism.
As
for the typology of tourist behavior, nothing to be added that wasn’t rendered already
in ‘Dawn of the Dead,’ back in 1978.
That’s
right; zombies storming a mall.
Tourism
is a disease meant to obliterate our collective memory for the benefit of the experiential
consumerist compulsion of each single individual, an illness with no antidote
till now, a rather shortsighted human being.
And
yet, the arrival of another deadly virus is attempting to destroy it. Hopefully
for good.
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