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I mean, I think there is a difference between being somewhere and looking at pictures of it on google earth, akin to having sex versus watching porn, being in l

I mean, I think there is a difference between being somewhere and looking at pictures of it on google earth, akin to having sex versus watching porn, being in love versus reading about love, eating spicy food versus watching people do it on Hot Ones etc.

seydor 4y ago
That was not my point, and there are gradations in those analogies. Cookie-cutter tourist vacations are not much different than watching the corresponding youtube travelogues, except for the smells, because they are so stereotypical. There is something interesting to traveling but i wonder how much value there is in it anymore. The author himself said that traveling is like fiction to him.