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Okay, point taken. You'll only get to see the artificial air-brushed façade of the nightmare. But, uh, how could a tour of a genuine dystopia actually work any
by pavement 10y ago
Okay, point taken. You'll only get to see the artificial air-brushed façade of the nightmare.
But, uh, how could a tour of a genuine dystopia actually work any other way? Would a dystopia ever advertise the horrors if its own shortcomings? Could a dystopia adequately prove it's own misery-inducing institutional apparatus to visitors if it tried? And, my god, would you actually want such an experience?
A walking tour of a prison camp? Tour guides that explain how they know they will die incarcerated, and that technically, listening to their words is actively benefiting from slave labor? What if you could go on an actual ride-along with a death squad as they disappear a real, live political dissident?
Wouldn't paying money for the opportunity to wade in and observe someone else's living hell, represent true sadistic voyeurism, when contrasted against the premise of paying to satisfy a morbid curiosity of what they'll let you see of it?
- teej 10y agoThe point is that your precious tourist dollars go towards supporting an oppressive regime so that you can view their citizens in zoo-like conditions. It's a disgusting choice to make.
- pavement 10y agoMost of the people I know of, who would travel there, are not interested in anything beyond the bragging rights of doing things few other people have done. Emphasis on the bragging. It's a trip a person takes to be cooler than the people who will listen to them talk about it. Actually, come to think of it, disgusting totalitarian patronage or not, that's what being on the receiving end of most conversations about someone else's vacation feels like.