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Monday, 22 June 2015
Why do we Desire views of Nature?
Why do we desire views in times of leisure at home or on holidays even when we are at work? Well recently ive been thinking about it and looking at some of the most desirable views available from regal pastures to wrestling wild seas, lush vegatative forests with there unabashed variants of trees yet what is it about them that we want? perhaps most likely is the reason that we want to possess them and recover what has been taken from us and our ancestors. Before our city dwelling experience we lived in a natural pri-mordial human enviroment. The times of neurotic ancient civilizations and there need to build very high walls still a faint but persistent idea in our heads. Amongst the soft grass and wild flowers as well as numerous predators we absconded. But the song forever remains the same we humans love the natural life giving phenomena of rivers that share food with us, trees that sheltered us and which we burnt for firey hest and grass for our herds and livestock when we started rearing flocks. A view from a window from our front room, hotel patio or sail boat triggers off our desire for nature that we have depended on and still do to this day and most likely always without an extreme tech revolution. In light of our gaze out across the landscape what is truly distressing is the fact that we should be satisfied with a multi million dollar view and deny ourselves the real tangiable thing nourishment and sustenence of our lifeblood without feeling an underlining primitive regression in our natural state of being typified by our dependence on natures unrefined natural capital. A view has the power to sweep us back into the pre-historic nostalgia of creation as a species which have so ardogantly stormed forth from to know real telling advances. Slavoj Zizek stated that the most pressing issue of our time is and will continue to be the 'battle for the commons'! For societal powers have taken our land our trees ours our animals our streams and rivers everything that can give and sustain life and then they demand that we buy it back with money generated off the backs of our own labour! It can not last either we will rip it back of them what is ours or the natural enviroment will become so alienated and degraded by us that we cant buy it back and we're really in a pickle then! But hey in the mean time admire the view, just dont forget not to touch.
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