So your contention is that since the premise is so lame, the "joke" is that it raises awareness about what it means to actually visit a place?
In the same sense that the presumably unintentional misunderstanding of irony in the song Ironic can be spun to actually be a (supposed) clever joke about irony.
I'm not talking about the "experiment", I'm talking about the guy who got all uppity about you not being able to enjoy life. I was saying he should be taking your comment (somewhat) in jest.
I didn't mean to get "all uppity". If it sounded that way it's because I sarcastically borrowed some of mhb's wording to make my point. I was just a little surprised that the top comment on HN is "...completely miserable way to waste a month" instead of "hey, this isn't for me, but it's an interesting idea."
In the same sense that the presumably unintentional misunderstanding of irony in the song Ironic can be spun to actually be a (supposed) clever joke about irony.