Jason Parham, loss of habitus

It is interesting for me to think that modern western society has lost its connectedness with the habitat or the environment that we live in. we only conceive that it is some form of scenery to be looked at but not experienced. This is probably because the majority of us have no need to interact with the land that this around us. We have our cities and houses and once we walk out of our house we drive our car on a road through the landscape only seeing it not involving our selves in it. Our new habitat is one that is man made and sustained by man, this means that it is artificial. And you loose your since of god in a world that is built by man, you don’t contemplate or become awestruck by driving down a interstate the same way you could feel belittled by walking through a canyon or over a mountain. This to me is a negative effect of development; you forget that you once depended on a community with the earth in order to survive, taking and giving what you could in order survive. Now all we have done is created an illusion hiding the earth’s greatness behind the artificial creations of man.