The modern American tourist now fills his experience with pseudo-events. He has come to expect both more strangeness and more familiarity than the world naturally offers. He has come to believe that he can have a lifetime of adventure in two weeks and all the thrills of risking his life without any real risk at all.

Daniel J. Boorstin (1914–2004) American historian, professor, attorney, writer

The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America, ch. 3 (1961)