Our cultures treat -=living places=- like objects — like a toy or dead thing. The reason is simple: they wish to dissect, catalog, sell, and enslave the places. The goal is to transform your pleasure in the ‘beauty’ (which you would not be so fascinated in if you did not live in a graveyard) into cold hard cash, ownership privileges, and luxuries.

This is very similar to what happened with the indigenous peoples during their encounters with our diseased cultures. The Native Americans (North and South), the Africans, and, throughout history, many others — have been turned into property, chattels, slaves, or just piles of dead bodies.

These principles are what catalyze (cattle-eyes) us into creating and serving the cancerous dead zones we call cities. These are the same principles that are wiping out our human intelligence, our health, our hope of deep community, the ecosystems and the oceans.

Tourism is a way of prostituting the living nature and history of place. We ‘sell the beauty’ in little packages of time. You go, spend, sweat, make waste, destroy, photograph madly, prior to returning to a dead zone and dead way of being human.

The result is the same as if you chained a teenage girl to a bed and had her doing businessmen from around the world all day, every day, without health care, attention, or food.

You should see -all the pretty pictures- those ‘tourists’ took of her…

… before they found her dead.