The illusion of global interconnection makes travel ever more necessary

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“People say that because of Google Earth and the ‘net, travel is less of a priority. I would say the opposite is the case. The very fact of easy interconnection, and the illusion such contact creates of understanding, makes travel ever more necessary. The world is not what it seems. The peevish person in his T-shirt and blue jeans and sneakers is not necessarily a UCLA student. He might be a separatist in Zamboanga or a Libyan rebel or an Ivorian in a mob in Abidjan or the hotheaded son of an African dictator. Or indeed he might be a man or woman heading to a Bruins game in L.A.”

–Paul Theroux, “Dispatch From a Shrinking Planet,” Newsweek, May 15, 2011

Original article can be found here: The illusion of global interconnection makes travel ever more necessary