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The tourism industry does not sell flight tickets and hotel bedrooms.
It sells experiences.
Paris is not a city, nor India a country, they are both experiences, the consumption of which is supposed to widen our horizons, fulfill our human potential, and make us happier.
Consequently, when the relationship between a millionaire and his wife is going through a rocky patch, he takes her on an expensive trip to Paris. The trip is not a reflection of some independent desire, but rather of an ardent belief in the myths of romantic consumerism.
A wealthy man in ancient Egypt would never have dreamed of solving a relationship crisis by taking his wife on holiday to Babylon. Instead, he might have built for her the sumptuous tomb she had always wanted.
There is no way out of the imagined order. When we break down our prison walls and run towards freedom, we are in fact running into the more spacious exercise yard of a bigger prison.
There’s no escaping from fictions, all we can hope for is to move up to a better fictional reality.