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On Dromomania
As a result, if you’re traveling as a form of vacation, you know you will be back in your box very, very shortly. This tends to provoke the behavior of “experience maximization,” in which you’re running around in a flurry of fatiguing excitement to experience every moment possible in your travels.
Lawrence Yeo • Travel Is No Cure for the Mind
We, the moderns, travel not because we have wanderlust but because we can have wanderlust. It doesn't bubble up from the wild pockets of humanness deep inside our souls; rather, it is programmed into the suggestible material of our consciousness by the media we are surrounded by, whether it is Wordsworth's poetry or that Instagram influencer
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