One of my favorite things to imagine is that cool sights and natural wonders don't make me feel like a tourist when I get to see them. Less roads, less fenced off places, no tickets required, etc. If there was going to be food, it would be authentic to the place where I'm going and not a food truck with burgers and fries for exorbitant prices. I want to visit Peru and I'm so terrified that Machu Picchu is going to be a tourist trap shit hole. I'm ready for the US to seize it and make concrete stairs that plough through the ancient buildings so it's easier to climb to increase sales by 15%.
Also, I want to go around saly-of-the-Earth places and see happy people. I don't want them desperately selling jewelry and having trouble getting enough to eat. I don't want their lot in life primarily defined by some terrible neoliberal fuckery. I want night life to be like an inn in a medieval movie/game. Not in the aesthetic, but insofar that a bunch of people are hooting and hollering with enough money to go "drinks are on me tonight!" People are playing instruments and cheering - and it's not just because they pulled off a heist or robbed some nobleman. Authentic, wholesome, foreign experiences would be wholly incompatible with some city wonks coming in and building a McDonald's and an oil refinery.
Or how about Mosi-oa-Tunya being renamed Victoria Falls? The smoke that thunders is 1,000,000,000x more badass! Both of these are examples of settlers not getting along well with the native people of that land.
One of my favorite things to imagine is that cool sights and natural wonders don't make me feel like a tourist when I get to see them. Less roads, less fenced off places, no tickets required, etc. If there was going to be food, it would be authentic to the place where I'm going and not a food truck with burgers and fries for exorbitant prices. I want to visit Peru and I'm so terrified that Machu Picchu is going to be a tourist trap shit hole. I'm ready for the US to seize it and make concrete stairs that plough through the ancient buildings so it's easier to climb to increase sales by 15%.
Also, I want to go around saly-of-the-Earth places and see happy people. I don't want them desperately selling jewelry and having trouble getting enough to eat. I don't want their lot in life primarily defined by some terrible neoliberal fuckery. I want night life to be like an inn in a medieval movie/game. Not in the aesthetic, but insofar that a bunch of people are hooting and hollering with enough money to go "drinks are on me tonight!" People are playing instruments and cheering - and it's not just because they pulled off a heist or robbed some nobleman. Authentic, wholesome, foreign experiences would be wholly incompatible with some city wonks coming in and building a McDonald's and an oil refinery.
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Or how about Mosi-oa-Tunya being renamed Victoria Falls? The smoke that thunders is 1,000,000,000x more badass! Both of these are examples of settlers not getting along well with the native people of that land.