Agnes Callard (of course, she's a Chicago grad and Berkeley PhD) eviscerates tourism -
"The single most important fact about tourism is this: we already know what we will be like when we return. A vacation is not like immigrating to a foreign country, or matriculating at a university, or starting a new job, or falling in love. We embark on those pursuits with the trepidation of one who enters a tunnel not knowing who she will be when she walks out. The traveller departs confident that she will come back with the same basic interests, political beliefs, and living arrangements. Travel is a boomerang. It drops you right where you started."
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/the-case-against-travel
Why do anti-intellectuals endlessly promote anti-intellectualism when we all know that it is the most fundamental form of bigotry and the American disgrace?
