developers is well-known. But perhaps the issue is not that the land is being utterly

stripped of life and replaced by cookie cutter houses or factories, which has been a

controversy for decades. Perhaps the fighting has exposed a deeper problem: the

American acceptance of a false outside, seen through lawns that mimic interiors.

People often perceive that any green space is nature. As Michael Ventura says,

"America is form opposed to content" (216). Contractors leave some existing trees on

lots not because it may be costly to remove them but because those trees also serve as

a selling feature for the houses built between. Most people would rather spend their

weekends at an official, regulated and landscaped park rather than hiking through some

un-named forest track. While there is the standard human desire for new experiences,

people often are only willing to try pre-tested experiences. Even when one realizes the

societal manipulation, it still seems difficult to jump over the railings and really cut a new

So if people are aware that they're being led by the nose through a sterile,

pre-chewed and mocked-up environment, why

American motto to "tame" the wilderness, to take what the land has to offer and use it to

artistically-untraditional individual--say for instance, someone like me--to lower the

vague nostalgia, maybe people have also have lost their connection to the real

something that will ensure their remembrance as "good ancestors." They wish to please

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