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Re: Ritual Landscapes
Oct 09, 2005, 12:53
"Beauty - or the appreciation of significance - is almost certainly culturally conditioned. That's why people have been able to destroy many things we would have found beautiful."

We had the Mother of all Threads about the aesthetics of sites a while back. I quite accept that appreciation of a lot of things in culturally conditioned but for me pleasure in the countryside and natural things feels like it's very deep. There have been times in history when cultural conditioning has overlaid that - and painters and poets and everyone else have seen the countryside and Druid Stones as awful places full of dread but I see that as a temporary thing, not as the real "us".
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