Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
Destination Chad
Via Dawn’s new blog comes a link to this little piece of handyness, sometimes also reffered to as the Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Index (ah the excitements of a life of stochastic ruminations). Point is, i started reading down the list, and it occured to me that the coutries up on top seem to be rather frightfully passe/lets be honest, boring.. Luxembourg allegedly a tourist heaven, offers little but a market square, for instance..woebetide anybody who finds himself there on sunday (as i was)
On the other hand, start from the bottom, and things are rather more interesting. And then, i spot Burkina Faso… a universal provider of context in economics classes. I guess, i’m wondering what it is that we, the modern gawking tourist is seeking anyways (clearly, starbucks is one).. if the aim is to get every country to be homogonised and pastuerised to a common stadard, then maybe our petty lives as cubicle monkies really are as pointless as they seem to the vast majority of extra-terrestrial observers…
Which leads us, naturally to the question of what qualifies as a satisfactory use of ostrich eggs? 27 times the size of a normal chicken egg, and a damn temptation if you ask me. I think ill just have fall in line with society here and use it merely as a post-modernist ornamental wine-cup for during my nightly tribal dance.
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