Yesterday had a chat with Dror about Israelis living in Romania and coming back home to Israel for the weekend, the fact the joureny takes only 2 hours is more than amazing in historical prospectives.
We spoke about our grandparents and gran grand parents who lived in east Europe for hundreds of years and dreamt about Erez Yisrael , but the distance was so huge! They couldn't even imagine traveling there.
Now everything is so simple, you can get anywhere is the world so fast and so easy, and if you are a member of the global middle class, you can travel anywhere in the world without such an effort.
The thing is that from one hand it is relay fantastic and unbelievable that we can travel so much and so easy, but the other side of the coin is that things are becoming the same and the world is actually becoming too small and boring.
Because of the traveling revolution and the communication revolution places looks so much the same and we the travelers because we travel so much are becoming less sensitive and excited about places we visit. It takes much more if at all - to move us.
I can recall my father describe to me his visits to Japan and America and sixties, everything was so new and exciting to him, the first time he landed in NY and the first time he tasted Ketchup and ate hamburger.
That kind of experince is something that very few people in our world stil have the chance to taste...
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