We usually perceive our world, our way of living, as beautiful because there is nothing else to perceive.
If one lives in this world, the globalized world of high technology, all one can see is one layer of commodity piled upon
another. In our world the "original" is the proliferation of the standardized. Copies are copies of copies. There seems to
be no ability to see beyond, to see that we have encased ourselves in an artificial environment that has remarkably replaced
the original, nature itself. We do not live with nature any longer; we live above it, off of it as it were. Nature has become
the resource to keep this artificial or new nature alive.
- Koyaanisqatsi
If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is: infinite.
- The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, William Blake
In the world I see -- you're stalking elk through the damp canyon forests around the ruins of Rockefeller
Center. You will wear leather clothes that last you the rest of your life. You will climb the wrist-thick kudzu
vines that wrap the Sears Tower. You will see tiny figures pounding corn and laying-strips of venison on the empty car
pool lane of the ruins of a superhighway.
- Fight Club, Tyler Durden.
