to be, or to be something else

the vernacular is f'd upThough it is nice and rosy to think positively about the landscape of modern America as J.B. Jackson does in his book “Landscape In Sight”, I for one agree more with the Kunstlerterian perspective on our contemporary predicament. Yes, it is easy to accept what we are accustomed too in terms of American landscape or geography but as Kunstler points out in the “Geography of Nowhere”, Jackson is unable to criticize the purpose of architecture and the way things are laid out in America today. Who cares if the “strangers path” looks the same no matter you go, what is beyond that path, what is on the path and why are people being led on that path. Yes the vernacular way of being in America is something to take note of, but that way of being is destroying the natural world in which humans rely on to survive. Not only our we as Americans, with our western mentality, killing off the beautiful world whose essence existed way before we came along, we are also saying that it is ok to take no care for what we produce in this world and the impact it has on the planet and humanity. Americans to easily accept what is laid out in front of them. We let our presidents lead us in to pointless and costly wars, we let companies rape and pillage nature, and we buy into this system by supporting the bodies of “wisdom” and “production” that enable us to live are disgusting and wasteful lives. I for one cannot sit back and accept what is being built in America and the way our culture manipulates space and place. We are to advance of a civilization to live in a way that is wasteful, selfish, and ultimately unable to support itself. The landscape is only part of the problem, but it symbolizes the destruction and ugliness of our being. Is there a better way out there, I think so, we just have to work hard to find it.