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Also, you absolutely learn things about the places that you can't learn in a travel blog.

What experiences do teach you anything novel or useful

"Personally experiencing things is overrated" is quite a take Also explains people who love "AI" slop

strong “all places worthy of description are already in britannica” victorian vibes

This dolt should visit ONE museum and then compare raw amount of things he seen with respective Wikipedia article.

Solid evidence for my theory that a bio or especially @-name that includes “nice” or “cool” is a serious risk factor for being tiresome.

Even if you do go to those places, there's tons and tons of stuff that no-one writes about! You can go to London or New York or Tokyo, some of the most intensively described places on earth, and discover something or someone you could never have learned about any other way

It was very interesting traveling to Poland a few years ago, I hardly saw any Americans, the Anglophones were mostly British, there were Middle Eastern tourists, pretty good rail system. It felt nice wandering around Kraków and Wroclaw.

May they live out their days in VR, drinking the least appetizing form of Huel.

This is the “Charlie Brown had hoes” of lifestyle advice. You can read every page on WP and it won’t give you that sunny day in early September on Kada beach, Wakayama province, where an old lady lent you her barbecue because summer was officially over and no BBQs were available for hire any more.

There’s a grain of truth in the OP in that a lot of people convince themselves they are learning about foreign cultures when really they’re just sitting on a foreign beach taking selfies. But that’s where the point goes off the rails

I think ”learning something novel or valuable” is doing heavy lifting.

You would only know that by traveling though.

I love art, I love contemporary and abstract art, but I never understood Jackson Pollock until I saw Number 1 in person. When I saw it, I stood in front of it for almost 30 minutes taking it in. Nothing that saw online ever come close to a 1/10th of what seeing it in person felt like.

I went to Knowth in Ireland several years ago. Amazing Neolithic tomb. Tour guide says we’re not going inside, but you can go online and look at pictures and I about barfed up a billy goat. Don’t come here, just look online is a fantastic tourism pitch.