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I do a bit of both, as I'm sure you do. I'm just advocating for the full contact approach to living which I think is being subtly eroded by disney, cruises, re
by gerbilly 8y ago
I do a bit of both, as I'm sure you do.
I'm just advocating for the full contact approach to living which I think is being subtly eroded by disney, cruises, resorts, cashless restaurants and uber and so on.
I don't know if you read travel writing, but imagine trying to read a good travel writer like Paul Theroux, except by first transposing everything into the mediated realm.
Instead of taking a cab and then staying at a small local hotel and eating at a market stall what if the writer took an uber then stayed in a resort and ate at the buffet?
- mprev 8y agoBut most people aren't travel writers. I travel on business. I want to get safely from one place to another, with as little drama as possible. Fine, Uber isn't for you but other people's preference for that style of transaction has nothing to do with infantilisation.
- chrisseaton 8y agoI understand your point of view, but an argument about a taxi fare, and paying a restaurant bill with cash instead of a card just don't seem like high quality life experiences worth cherishing to me.
- gerbilly 8y agoYeah, but I think removing the possibility of those experiences introduces too much intermediation into daily life for everyone else. I cherish those possibilities, like I cherish freedom. I may not exercise my full freedom every day, but I do cherish it.
- icebraining 8y agoCash itself is intermediation.