It would be easy, very easy to make fun of these two people in overalls posing in front of a destroyed tank in the village of Rusaniv, in the Kiev region. It would be just as easy to do good sociology. In truth, it is all very elementary, very understandable. And anyone who points the finger with anger, with disapproval, should recognize that in this shot there is also a sign of life, a crude, pathetic, but very human sign of life. We are alive, despite this wreckage behind us! We are alive despite the war! So we might as well be tourists. “Contemplation of the world from a tourist point of view – one of the greatest European writers, Yasmina Reza, recently told me about her latest novel,” Serge “- is the very essence of our age.
All those in the world who have had access to a certain standard of living are tourists.
We cannot be excluded from this category. Tourism also includes those who believe they are extraneous to the phenomenon. Everything has adapted to the needs of this new humanity in search of sensations. The landscapes, the customs, the food, the habitat, everything. Everything is a “site”. Including the places of tragedies, the advantage of which is that they are places where we can feel full of compassion, so to speak ‘above evil’. ”