Bored? Too much money? Too many people you know into eco-tourism and adventure travel for it to be cool any more? Need a new, more extreme way to spend money on distracting yourself from your normal, day-to-day distractions? Looking for new ways to forget your ennui, anomie and accidie for a few precious moments without acheiving anything at all?
Then perhaps you would like a nice vacation; maybe you could go see how the other half live by touring a slum in India via air-conditioned car, or is Kenya more your speed? It’s got it all in one simple stop: the AIDS victims dying slowly on a cold, cardboard bed. The breastless teenager. … Plastic-eating goats fighting small children … and — ah yes — the famous ’shit-rolls-downhill-flying-toilets’. It’s unbeatable.
Or even better, invade someone’s home and privacy and stick your camera in a stone-age face in Papua, New Guinea by being the ‘first’ to disturb encounter a culture.
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