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There's a huge irony in seeing a Hollywood movie about a deserted, tourist free beach. Then booking a package holiday to it, expecting the same, and dropping yo
by NeedMoreTea 8y ago
There's a huge irony in seeing a Hollywood movie about a deserted, tourist free beach. Then booking a package holiday to it, expecting the same, and dropping your crap on the beach anyway. Still, everywhere will be the same soon at this rate. Ruined.
I'm glad I experienced a few locations before they became commercialised and before I stopped flying.
- smcl 8y agoHonestly it's completely understandable to be upset at large numbers of tourists (particularly if they do things like drop litter) but I can't help feeling this comment is lacking a little bit of self awareness
- NeedMoreTea 8y agoNot sure I see what you're getting at. I'm old enough that many places that are now heaving major destinations, with extensive damage, weren't terribly commercialised or even especially popular. If I wanted an isolated, pristine beach I wouldn't pick one made globally famous. I'd actively avoid it.
- westiseast 8y agoArt imitates life I guess (or the other way around). I always thought the book had its own set of ironies, in that this perfect beach existed, and it was the people that brought their troubles and fucked it up, regardless of how ideologically superior they thought they were.