The destruction of industrial culture is occuring from within as alienation invades the work place. . .
Affirmation of basic social values is departing the world of work and seeking refuge in the realm of leisure. "Creativity" is almost exclusively in the province of cultural, not industrial, productions, and intimacy and spontaneity are reserved for social relations away from work. Working relations are increasingly marred by cold calculation. Tourism is developing the capacity to organize both positive and negative social senitments.
The Tourist (1968-72) / Dean MacCannell / pg. 6
Interesting enough, the generalized anxiety about the authenticity of interpersonal relationships in modern society is matched by certainty about the authenticity of touristic sites
pg. 14
It is a source of anxiety that our kind of society has the capacity to develop beyond the point where individuals can continue to have a meaningful place in it.
pg. 15
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