The
romantization of anything--making it a
romance--is the elevation of some
belief, or
convenience, to serve a
purpose.
I agree with Jennifer that there is no salvation on the land, but equally, I believe that is no more necessary salvation in the city, as Jennifer also points out more graphically than I ever could.
We make our own salvation as best we can with whatever we have at hand to do it. Bu the thing about our lives is the commoditization of it--and the romantization of that--the way we take what once were things, and render then nothing but parts of our imagination, that we buy and sell.
I can only imagine how far removed that takes us, what realms of philosophical mathematics, no fields of Elysieum to play in--our last cord severed.