The majority of western tourists who visit Pakistan go for the natural scenery and low-cost 5-star hotels. They are not intermingling with Islamic radicals. That’s practically impossible.
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BUT - and it’s a big BUT - there’s enough still in Bhutan to allow you to see what life used to be like. How life was before diversity, modernity, industrial-tech, narcissism, rootlessness and all our current roles. Want an example? Look how beautiful their 2nd biggest city is.pic.twitter.com/PLsYOyNurf
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Think about this. What is more likely to radicalise a rootless and atomised westerner? Cheap 5-star hotels in Pakistan? Chaperoned tours of North Korea where you don’t speak to the locals at all and can only take photos where your tour guide allows?
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No. It would be a glimpse of what has been lost, AND what is being lost. Bhutan offers a glimpse back in time before modern poz, and the fact that modernity is fast creeping in on Bhutan makes it all the more real and immediate.pic.twitter.com/5aZ1a081gR
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I saw a unique and real culture in Bhutan. One united and mostly free of modern influences. Those influences which are now there were all the more apparent by their evil disparity. Now THAT radicalises you. Not touring Islam. Not touring Stalinism. This beauty does.pic.twitter.com/nOF7ruFI27
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I understood Ted Kaczynski when I went to Bhutan. I wanted to stop all modernity and turn the clock back to this saner society. I saw more clearly what we had lost and saw more clearly our ills.pic.twitter.com/egIMk67TjN
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The fact that Bhutan is changing fast only made me feel this more. Seriously, you want to be radicalised against modern poz? Visit Bhutan. See how a people mostly unaffected by reality TV, geopolitics, social media and globohomo actually live. You will never feel sadder.pic.twitter.com/alPCnvYkTY
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Of all my travels, it was Bhutan that pushed me further than anything against our dystopian leftist current year. Some of this is mere nostalgia for what we ourselves have lost, but I guarantee no so-called terrorist is getting this from group tours to Pakistan or N Korea.pic.twitter.com/9L66EIWmbA
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Never trust journalists. Trust your own experience. Travel the world and see things for yourself. If not anything else, at least you will learn that “multiculturalism” is a uniquenely monocultural phenomenom. Goodnight.
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