"Both you and I are prisoners."
Contemporary societal control no longer relies on external coercion but is rooted in cultural hegemony based on identity. The soft control of the landscape manipulates and distorts people's perceptions and desires, making them passive consumers, disconnected from genuine experiences.
We lose touch with real moments and the potential of the future; our memories are concealed and distant. The landscape's reconfiguration symbolically kills off commodities, driving people to chase an unattainable ideal, much like a pursuit of eternal beauty. Our true present is lost, replaced by a simulated one.