Nassim Nicholas Taleb:
The systematic removal of uncertainty and randomness from things, trying to make things highly predictable in their smallest details, with a precise itinerary to follow —and a known teleology (that is, aims at a visible, known, and certain goal). It is like putting people in prison. What a tourist would be in relation to an adventurer, or a flâneur, touristification consists in transforming anything, not just travel, like an actor following a script. We will see how systems and organisms that like uncertainty get castrated by sucking randomness out of them to the last drop, through the process of touristification. The guilty parties are soccer moms, the education system, planning, funding teleological scientific research, etc.
But the worse touristification is the life we moderns have to have in captivity, even during our leisure hours: opera, scheduled parties, jobs. Jail.
This “goal-driven” attitude hurts deeply into my existential self.
I’ve always wondered if a lion or a carnivore would find the flesh of free-range humans of better taste –and pay more for it.
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