Recreational travel cultures like to call themselves ‘nomads’. They’re nothing like nomads, nomads move to…

Recreational travel cultures like to call themselves ‘nomads’. They’re nothing like nomads, nomads move to survive. Meanwhile travel cultures invest trillions in their own homes, and in ‘border protection’ to stop others wandering nomadically through their own countries. 1/4 https://t.co/FHs8zSJ1fc

Travel cultures are just imperial cultures. Recreational travel is the ‘Grand Tour’ aristocratic families sent their boys on, when they came of age, now emulated by lower status members of the population. Turning the rest of the world into theme parks to be ‘experienced’. 2/4

This is how societies always change. High status people do something, which is then emulated by lower status people wanting to be higher status people. Most travel is an itinerary through peoples’ social media feeds, imitative rivalry. 3/4

We never leave home. Our exotic travel locations are just new content and filler for our curated social media feeds, in status games. /end