In the mountains, we might feel alienated and uncomfortable with our own actions, and we pretend to control them; both the controllable like a pair of skis as well as our technique. This is because we are unable to allocate sufficient time for self-education and enhancement of our own skiing.
Our postmodern skiing experiences may be disposable, ephemeral and continuously devalued, leading us to rush in search of novel experiences as a result of the alienation of skiing time as a symbol of postmodern acceleration, as the increased pace of skiing corresponds to a perceived scarcity of time.
We seem being ‘thrown‘ into a mountain space outside of our everyday environment, where we have our routine, our level of control and our inherent prior acceleration.
We are being co-opted by the accelerated ski consumerism that we change before they become obsolete and use as disposable things.
