John Gray: belief

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…I think they upped it to $400 recently, but yes, it used to be $200, I believe. I don’t say that’s wrong. You see, that is still, in many ways, a very unique and cohesive culture. So if they had hundreds of thousands of tourists, more could be destroyed than could be justified, perhaps, in terms of the benefits it gave to the people who lived there before. But Britain is a very individualistic and multicultural society as it stands. I don’t think anything much is destroyed. Just parking — it’s difficult. [laughs] That can be coped with in various ways. I think, in all of these things, in most countries, at most times, in most places, the aim is to achieve a balance. You see, if it was completely destroyed . . . To give an example there, you might have had this experience too. I have been to Italian cities and museums and art galleries where the crowds were so enormous and so permanent and so thick, and the waits were so long, and when you got in to see the pictures, you could hardly get to see them at all. At that point, almost it’s not worth going, so I do see your point. You’d have to raise the price significantly, probably, of just being there to make it worth being there. You’d have to pay more for it to be worth being there. Is Monty Python still funny?…

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