One of the reasons I travel a lot to southern islands is their charm, magic, or gravitational pull. Tropical islands are fun and pleasant, making everyone happy as if by their magic.
However, when you think about it again, you realize that it is not the islands but our modern society under the spell. For instance, we assume that a life in which we work 9 to 5 and commute on a crowded train or in heavy traffic daily is a reality, but is it?
The real world is more enchanted, to put it another way, in a nightmare. And the southern islands have the function of breaking such an overcasting spell.