Hay vida más allá del turismo?

Buena partida para este viaje.  Entonces podemos considerar dos tipos de viajero:

1. el que tu invocas, que es una figura angélica,  enamorada del conocimiento compartido, pariendo una obra colectiva como práctica de un iluminismo cotidiano,  como participación viva en la gloria manifiesta.
2. y un pasajero masivo, un conmuter, un turista, un consumidor de transportes. Voy a referirme a éste tipo de “viajero” para establecer un punto de referencia crítico que ayude a liberar la visión de su posible antagonista o antipoda: “…El transporte moderno es la continuación de la escuela por otros medios…”, “…la butaca es el estrecho teatro dentro de cuyos limites debe reconstruir unos sucedáneos al universo…” (Brukner & Fienkelkraut)

“…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?
Of the three archaic reasons for travel – call them «war», «trade», and «pilgrimage» – which one gave birth to tourism? Some would automatically answer that it must be pilgrimage. The pilgrim goes «there» to see, the pilgrim normally brings back some souvenir; the pilgrim takes «time off» from daily life; the pilgrim has nonmaterial goals. In this way, the pilgrim foreshadows the tourist…”

Overcoming Tourism by Hakim Bey

 

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