What is next?

I saw something on TV today that was disturbding, sad, and painfully ironic and the perfect summerary of the state of society today. It was an advertisment for this turf (fake lawn) that people could by for thier yards at thier house. So to get this straight now, people are buying syntetic grass, to replace real grass becasue they want the look of having a grassy yard. Now the things that are wrong with this picture are too numerous to count. It is really quite unbelivable and society can be evulatuated from this by many different angels. First theres is this whole strange, twsited, and unhealthy relationship people have with nature, they want to be neart it without being near it, to experince it, without really experinceing it, to frame it and hang it on the wall to look at without having to interact with it. So they want the look and feel of grass, but they do not want to acutally have real grass because of a fear that have been grown within of it. It is the same concept as people that buy houses up in the hills and then complain in they encounter wildlife.

Another way to view this, is just the complete laziness that people and that child like need of wanting without having to do anything for it. They want grass becasue they think it looks nice, but then heaven forebid they should acutally have to take care of it, becasue mowing and watering is just so much work that nobody can be bothered with. So now they can go out and buy a product that looks and feels like grass but takes zero effort.

In some ways it is hillarious in its sheer and utter sadness I mean there was a time when this sort of thing could be pulled off as a joke on some skit show. It has that flavor but it is very much real. 

8:09 PM - 1/5/2007 - post comment

turf

Oh, I'd hate that happening here. Yet, they're now beginning to replace a lot of soccer fields with artificial turf, and that's where it started in America, eh? I wonder how long it takes for artificial yards to catch on here...

dutchboy - 1:22 AM - 1/6/2007

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Didn't the Brady Bunch have Astro Turf???Haha. I hate to be the devil's advocate, but we could do without the chemicals that people use on their lawn washing into the ground water. Speaking of water, people waste so much water on their lawns...most water too much and people around here let their in ground sprinklers on timers run even during the rain. It really goes against nature to have a thick green lawn in the summer; its a cool season crop; so we go against nature to get it to look like we think it should. When it's dormant and wet, our dogs run on it and it gets ruined. It's so expensive to replace!

Fightingfemale - 6:34 AM - 1/6/2007

G'DAY FROM AUSTRALIA!

I haven't noticed the fake grass catching on over here yet! However I pefer a wild garden that can take care of it's self but that's because I was born and bred in the country and loved to converse with nature. My lawn at this present time is to all intense and purposes dead, we cannot water grass at all and our other plants twice a week by hand held hose and by bucket any time one likes. Water is liquid gold in this part of the universe and will be for some time yet unless a cloud bursts and it rains over the catchment dams for a solid month or two. Having said all that, I do agree with you about people and nature, I often smile to myself when I hear people say oh! How I'd love to live in the country side but will complain, birds are singing too loud and disturbing there peace, so in my mind they wouldn't go too well in the country or any where nature is, and here in lies the problem with people in general. Sorry I have rambled on so long but your entry was very good and thought provoking and I enjoyed reading it, so thank you for another interesting piece. Love and ((((hugs)))) from Dawnie.

Edited by DAWNIE on 1/6/2007 at 7:38 PM

DAWNIE - 4:34 PM - 1/6/2007

Quote of the Week: Wherever a man may happen to turn, whatever a man may undertake, he will always end up returning to that path which nature has marked out for him --Johann Wolfgang von Gothe

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