Sapiens. A brief history of mankind (№ 412221)

Today, people spend a lot of money on foreign trips, because they wholeheartedly accepted the myth of romantic consumerism. Romantic consumerism was born from a combination of two ideologies of modernity, romantic and consumerist. Romanticism teaches that a person must reach his full potential, and this requires the most diverse experience that can be obtained. Open yourself to the widest range of emotions, try different types of relationships, taste the cooking of all peoples, learn to love such music and any. And, perhaps, the best way to achieve maximum diversity is to break with the ordinary routine, leave the usual environment and go to distant countries, where we can "feel" the culture, smells, tastes and norms of other people. We hear romantic myths over and over again about how "new experiences opened my eyes and changed my life.