Imagine looking at this gorgeous landscape 100 years ago and thinking the best use of it will be strip malls and ugly roads.

i often see people posting pbotos of some landscape or other and people commenting how beautiful it is.. and I'm like "there's a fucking road through the middle!"

i assume they just don't see it, like the person in a gorilla suit on the sidewalk that people don't see.. speaking of which

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/05/optical-illusions-see-world-perception