Pandemics and other catastrophes accelerate the collapse of already broken social systems. Because we’re…

Pandemics and other catastrophes accelerate the collapse of already broken social systems. Because we’re pretending we’re post-pandemic, this process of collapse is being drawn out over a longer time. The culture of travel was always doomed. /1 https://t.co/PiDTj1Byon https://t.co/fNA1CbbqTy

A culture that isn’t grounded, that has no relationship to place, that understands the world as a series of ‘sights’ to be ‘experienced’, is always on borrowed time. Eventually it needs to come into land. Culture is not a game of musical chairs. Or maybe it is. /2

As we mindlessly and obsessively circumnavigate the globe, the number of chairs left for us to ‘land’ in post-travel is rapidly running out. We’re living a caucus race. All moving, never arriving anywhere. The important thing (apparently) is to just keep moving. /3 https://t.co/w8eTtH3Bmz

Stopping might make us confront what the point of it all is. We can’t have that. /end