Our Depressing Rejection of Nature

I think there's a common theme around the world at the moment: the lies of a labour shortage seemingly in every country, a problem that sprung up out of nowhere. With this comes the rampant development that we all see now. Landscapes changing massively. Apartments thrown up overnight, new buildings all over. I noticed the craziness of this taking place in England, and even here in Armenia, it's just as crazy. Even in the areas that are less dense, suddenly huge development projects are taking place. In a space like Armenia, surrounded by mountains and beautiful natural landscapes, I see this rejection of nature. The irony is that a particular mountain holds importance in Armenia's culture: Mount Ararat. This is a mountain that towers over all else, visible from the Cascade in Yerevan, in most situations, you see it lurking through the clouds. This incredible mountain really puts things to scale. You feel tiny seeing it, you feel that sense of beauty in life. What happens when we hide these views away from our daily lives? Replacing them with stone. The cold and the dark as the natural light is blocked and replaced with artificial light, strong horrific LEDs that burn the night away. It comes as no surprise that the entire world suddenly feels tired, on edge, void of direction, as we reject the natural world around us. I feel a frustration in such moments. The see the views slowly being replaced, ignored, cast aside in favour of GDP bullshit.

I roamed this landscape, seeing the development unfolding. It's hard to not see it in most places now. You see the landscape shifting, the ideology shifting in favour of that globalist modernism that poisons each nation, removing identity and that long established tradition. You see how the modernism enforces the rejection of culture, turning us all into IKEA obsessed fools that no longer see the beauty in patterns and colour, but pursue some minimalism under the assumption of tidiness and luxury. It doesn't really matter who you speak to or where they are from, it seems everyone is tired of these changes, the rampant development that has turned villages into towns, and towns into cities, not really benefitting anyone other than those in power, where the costs increase, and the quality of life in such places decreases as the chaos turns up to eleven. More people, more noise, more crime, and less freedom. It's genuinely a tragedy. Why are we doing this to ourselves? The pandemic era having certainly caused some sort of insanity, given that peroid was when the mass migration really took off, and the development became completely wild.

It makes me think of what the future is going to be like. It's sad. The rejection of nature. The rejection of culture. Tradition lost in favour of a select few getting richer. The identity of people around the world replaced with a mundane sameness all around. No longer do we hold different ideas, different interest, different inspirations from the locations we live in. All cars are the same. All buildings are the same. The food we eat the same. Nothing unique about anything.

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