Always Home or into Happiness—Why Do We Travel?
摘要
All the misfortunes of this world come from the fact that people cannot stand being in their homes in the long run—so Blaise Pascal summed up the whole problem of our restless times. While Novalis still thought that every journey ultimately leads home, because life itself is to be understood as such, the modern lifestyle finds its goal in being on the move. Out, just get out, that’s the motto. Mobility becomes a value in itself. But is it possible, to find ourselves while on the move? How can we expect to find ourselves when we are surrounded by attractions and thousands of distractions, tailored as pre-packaged products, so that all we need to do is accept them—and are then immediately catapulted into a state of happiness?—or so the hype goes.