> Pessoa, Emerson, and Chesterton believed that travel, far from putting us in touch with humanity, divorced us from it. Travel turns us into the worst version of ourselves while convincing us that we’re at our best. Call this the traveller’s delusion.
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The Case Against Travel

Agnes Callard writes about why travelling shouldn’t be branded as an achievement, and why people insist on projecting meaning onto their journeys.

The New Yorker