Creating Value

I question whether there is a need to criticize any travel writing that is not contemporary. I believe that all contemporary writing should be subject to criticism because all intellectualism is subject to cultural influence- plain and simple. To me- culture is precisely those behaviors that we perform without first thinking. For that reason, it is important to undermine cultural assumptions and complicate the world a bit more than some would like. Yeah let's talk about ethics, let's talk about truth- these are loaded terms. If there is no truth, can ethics create value?

"The surviving hope that lies are a form of truth discovery- is both wonderfully comic and wonderfully full of insight." - Gillian Beer