Dean MacCannell

Tourism is argued to be the best way to experience culture not in a static state as in a museum environment. This work of cultural criticism is commonplace and already accepted in academia. Barack Obama went to Hiroshima to celebrate peace efforts but blamed America for the bombing of the city. Accordingly, Obama was a good tourist since he was able to condemn an alien America without having to exercise any self-criticism about his role as a guilty party. This book is Marxist in its theoretical presuppositions so it has no value outside the group-think of like minded university coterie.… (altro)