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Nov. 12th, 2004 02:05 amDFW on tourism, courtesy of ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
evan.
It kinda sums up my own feelings on the subject rather well, and explains a lot about how I feel about a lot of peripheral things. Take, for example, the town of Great Barrington, which my school is vaguely situated in.
Its economy is entirely driven by tourism. Without the summer and autumn waves of tourists, there simply would not be a town of Great Barrington any longer - the original farming community or whatever it once was is long lost. This state of affairs has always disturbed me, and I've never been able to exactly articulate it, but this excerpt is a good start.
evan.It kinda sums up my own feelings on the subject rather well, and explains a lot about how I feel about a lot of peripheral things. Take, for example, the town of Great Barrington, which my school is vaguely situated in.
Its economy is entirely driven by tourism. Without the summer and autumn waves of tourists, there simply would not be a town of Great Barrington any longer - the original farming community or whatever it once was is long lost. This state of affairs has always disturbed me, and I've never been able to exactly articulate it, but this excerpt is a good start.
