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You can do this today: hang out with a reindeer herder in Siberia and then pop over to Shanghai. Nothing's changed.
by willhslade 6y ago
You can do this today: hang out with a reindeer herder in Siberia and then pop over to Shanghai. Nothing's changed.
- sjtindell 6y agoI agree. I also have had a strange feeling my last few travels though. There is a pervasive sameness. Even in more traditional parts of India, Mexico. Obviously in places like the US, Western Europe, Canada. Once I step out of the temple, or get off the horse in the remote village, there’s this familiarity. I think an example is what I now think of as “the uniform”: sneakers, jeans, a t shirt with a brand on it. 9 to 5 jobs and democratic governments. Many similar problems, relationships. Obviously there are huge differences in so many fundamental ways, even the ones I mention. But it’s the thread of truth you find in controversial books like The End of History. Globalization is real. The conquest of capitalism and the dream of liberal democracy is far reaching.
- ddingus 6y agoYes I see this too. For The Travelers back in those times the world could look very different. And not that it doesn't look different now, but you're right there's a lot more of the same things were more homogenized and we know more about other places in the world than they ever could have back then
- ddingus 6y agoI agree, but the experience is a little bit less fantastic just because we know more. We know that the Futures in some places and we can still see the past. That was not true for Traveller way back then