It’s the closest you can get to seeing pre-technological life. This is a normal house. Till recently it was totally isolated and they only allow a few tourists to visit each year.pic.twitter.com/gQpyT0OcP6
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It’s fucking difficult to visit Bhutan. Even being there incurs a USD $250 per day fee just to be there. This is done to lower tourism levels and to preserve their unique culture.pic.twitter.com/iR0lTHJtQv
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It’s not perfect. Till recently it was technology free but now they have introduced elections over monarchy and TV sets and iPhones are now creeping in. This isn’t Shangri-La.pic.twitter.com/3TnH2reMv4
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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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Replying to @Bodipua
Tl;dr is you have a shit attention span
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