{"id":4380,"date":"2016-03-12T09:14:58","date_gmt":"2016-03-12T14:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scorai.org\/?p=2810"},"modified":"2016-03-12T09:14:58","modified_gmt":"2016-03-12T14:14:58","slug":"crash-landing-at-schiphol-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.clarku.edu\/hbrown\/2016\/03\/12\/crash-landing-at-schiphol-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"Crash landing at Schiphol Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"

Schiphol airport in Amsterdam used to be my favorite large city international airport. It offered a quiet lounge furnished with couches, a children playing area with soft pads and cushions, a room for praying, which was an oasis of tranquility, and even a small art gallery featuring selections from Rijksmuseum. I always thought: Oh, the Dutch, they know something about quality of life! Well, I was wrong: they were simply behind everybody else in dragging the travelers into the chamber of horrors of consumerism, which is what the major airports have become.<\/p>\n

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On my recent visit to Schiphol, I found myself waiting for the gate departure in a huge noisy shopping mall under extremely bright florescent lights, assaulted by advertising from every possible direction. Gone are the quiet areas and soft seats, gone are the caf\u00e9-like corners, replaced with a large fast-food cafeteria. The closest thing to tranquility is the computer working area, with its hard, sit-up-straight chairs.<\/p>\n

Some marketing geniuses have concluded that if this captive population with two hours to spare and the vacation-spending mindset is aggressively stimulated and kept restlessly moving, they shop more. Well, this is to you, marketing geniuses: it does not work for me, and hopefully not for many others.<\/strong> I refuse to buy anything at the New Schiphol<\/em>. I just need to figure out some new quiet and soft\u00a0corner to hide.<\/p>\n

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