The End Of Elsewhere: The Endangered Species of the Global Citizen.

What is ending was paid for by colonized populations whose extracted labor and resources built the European wealth that funded the Grand Tour and the Romantic retreat. By the global periphery whose underdeveloped economies kept the prices low for the backpacker and the budget tourist. By the people in the countries my students’ parents passed through on their gap years, who watched the wealthy of another society arrive in search of meaning their own society had stopped providing, and who absorbed the implicit verdict that their lives were the raw material for someone else’s self-discovery.

It was paid for, in other words, by almost everyone except the people doing the searching.