/lit/ - Literature

Don't worry OP, international travel and owning stuff will soon be a thing of the past.

https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/anti-consumerism

>>19354157
You VILL own nazing
You VILL be happy

>>19354148
That's very weird frog, I was just have this same sense of anti-travelling/tourism sentiment. Books for this feel?

Speedread it recently to get it off my shelf. Could have done with fewer le ebin anti-essjay doubleyou nods but as pop psych 101 it wasn‘t bad

>>19354216
I can't find this book anywhere, not even on libgen

What’s wrong with travel?

>>19354306
Its the commodification of cultures and history

>>19354349
Maybe if you’re a retarded Instagram thot or coomer sex tourist. There’s nothing wrong with travel if you’re genuinely interested in experiencing other cultures first hand.

>>19354198
Books on woodworking and carpentry, welding and blacksmithing, and leatherworking and sewing. I would rather forge a knife or build a crossbow than go see a building. Unfortunately I am married and chicks love wasting money on traveling and eating out. I would rather just go ride a dual sport and camp through every lost highway in the western usa. Now that sounds like fun. I don't think travel is the problem because traveling to see natural beauty is cool, it is the purchasing of food and stupid trinkets that is the bad thing. But I am aware that driving east of the mississippi is absolutely miserable because the deciduous forest makes it basically a tunnel and the overpopulation makes it busy. I can assure you that driving through the four corners is amazing.

>>19354558
for the american "to travel" is to drive around his country (the car model matters)

>>19354167
Being happy with little/nothing is a noble goal.

>>19354569
Well I said dualsport which is a motorcycle and since I am not going to consume pharmaceutical products I am not allowed into the amusement park which is yurop. I would like to go bowfishing in the amazon though. Unfortunately many of our scenic places are getting to be as bad as europe. Colorado is basically a commodified disneyland much like the alps are. I do love driving and top gear though so yes driving is a very fun part of travel. My ideal foreign vacation would always involve driving or riding motorcycles through a country from town to town. I would just stick to our continents though. Nothing worth seeing in the old world, idk maybe africa but it is so damn big. I doubt I'll ever see enough of these two continents to bore me.

>>19354593
Only if you have full autonomy over it.

>Travel? One need only exist to travel. I go from day to day, as from station to station, in the train of my body or my destiny, leaning out over the streets and squares, over people’s faces and gestures, always the same and always different, just like scenery.
>If I imagine, I see. What more do I do when I travel? Only extreme poverty of the imagination justifies having to travel to feel.
>“Any road, this simple Entepfuhl road, will lead you to the end of the World.” [Thomas Carlyle] But the end of the world, when we go around it full circle, is the same Entepfuhl from which we started out. The end of the world, like the beginning, is in fact our concept of the world. It is in us that the scenery is scenic. If I imagine it, I create it; if I create it, it exists; if it exists, then I see it like any other scenery. So why travel? In Madrid, Berlin, Persia, China, and at the North or South Pole, where would I be but in myself, and in my particular type of sensations?
>Life is what we make of it. Travel is the traveler. What we see isn’t what we see but what we are.
This is closest I could think of. Sylvia Plath had a similar quote

>>19354216
>le ebin anti-essjay doubleyou nods
What is it about this shit that's so cringe?

>>19354805
I take issue with this because if what we travel and see reveals what or who we are then why would it not be a good pursuit?

>>19354167
>I'm only happy when I consume and move around>>19354158

>>19354816
Holding women to mens standards is what is cringe.

>>19354826
That's not what he's saying though, it's more in the line of 'wherever you are, you are yourself'. There's no reveal, the range of your experience remains the same.
The problem he is acknowledging is probably against the conception of traveling as this fulfilling experience that brings self actualization or discovery or whatever.

>>19354148
the beach

Destruction and Sorrow Beneath the Heavens - Krasznahorkai.
Author goes to China to find any remnants of old Chinese culture, finds that the Chinese are soulless idiots that destroy and poorly remake and copy the scant remains of their own culture to appease tourists who don't know any better.

>>19354533
>There’s nothing wrong with travel if you’re genuinely interested in experiencing other cultures first hand.
If you "respected" those cultures you wouldn't wander into their country and gawk at their architecture and people as a pasty white male in a t-shirt and cargo shorts holding a digital camera around his neck.

Cope.