Travelling

There's an old saying: "It is better to travel hopefully than to
arrive." However, this is a rubbish saying. It is best of all to travel AND
arrive, no matter how you do it, because that's kind of the point of
travelling. If you travel all the time without ever arriving anywhere,
that's not zeitguyst. That's just being homeless. And if you keep arriving
in different places without ever travelling, that's not zeitguyst
either; that's probably schizophrenia.

It's easier to travel now than it's ever been. Because of global
warming, there's more hot air in the atmosfear (not to be confused with
atmosphere, the video board game from the 1990s). This makes it easier for
planes to fly, which means that tickets to Europe are cheaper than ever.
Tickets to places outside of Europe are still expensive. This is
because, without the EU, there is less hot air to float on.

Before cheap flights were invented, people mostly travelled by bicycle.
The first bicycle was invented by Lord Bicycle in 1952 and cost a penny
farthing, which is £4,600 in today's money. It could travel at 3mph,
which seemed so fast at the time that people used to throw up just
thinking about it. After a while, though, people learned not to think while
they were travelling, a tradition that survives to this day in the form
of drivetime radio.

There's another old saying: "Travelling without moving is no good to
anyone." This might seem obvious to us now, but remember that for a very
short and worrying period of time, Jamiroquai seemed like he might be
zeitguyst.

Lest we forget.


ZG