Monday, November 03, 2008
Wilderness as "focal things"
I love the wilderness but when we discussed the wilderness it opened my eyes to something. The fact that we need technology to conquer the wilderness that we see. If you think about it even when we think we are out in nature, most of the time it is some how made that way by man. I rarely am in an completely untamed area of land. In some way man has come in to play around with the land to make it easier. Either we go to a park to be outside but that is basically made by man or when we on a trial, made by man, you still even hear cars passing by, which takes away from the outside enviorment that would have been experienced 100 years ago.
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There has not been a piece of land not touched by man it seems. The entirety of the world is controlled by someone. And this is what was meant when they said, "There is no more frontier." We have counquered the land, for better or for worse. We can control what goes on in the "untamed" land and make sure it is not hurt, but does this mean it is still "untamed" if it is still controlled by rules and regulations?
I agree, man is always wanted to conquere and control anything they can. Just take a look at the wilderness like rachel said, we have a national park system that has done just that. The park system has taken raw land and marked it as a place of untouched land. Really though this land has been modified for people to walk though, camp or even hike.
I agree that the wilderness is one of the most important focal things that the world has to offer. It can give us the best connection to reality because it is natural.I also think that it has been the consistent goal of man to conquer it throughout history. Humans should understand that they are part of the system that makes up the wilderness not above it. As far as national parks go I think your right in that they make it very accessible which makes it seem modified. But the national park system are very small chunks of land in comparison to the entire united states and they do a great job of protecting lands because who knows one day that could be all thats left.
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