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The view that stays put so you don't have to work for the metaphor.
means The visible landscape or backdrop of a place — the hills, trees, buildings, or painted flats that surround the action, whether on a stage or a highway.
from Borrowed from Italian 'scena' via theater jargon — 'scenery' originally meant the painted backdrops and set pieces that dressed a stage, built on 'scene,' which traces back to Greek 'skēnē,' the tent or hut actors changed in behind the playing area. The word climbed out of the theater in the 1700s to describe real-world views, carrying its stagecraft origins with it — which is why calling mountains 'scenery' still faintly implies someone arranged them for your benefit.
- theater origin
- originally meant painted backdrops, not real landscapes
- passive consumption
- you admire it without it demanding anything back
- change of scenery
- the cure prescribed when the problem is actually you