It's part of the human condition to want to manipulate and control the world around us. The Protestant work ethic and British sense of tidiness focus this desire on working hard to make the beauty of nature into tidy and manageable bits. Think about Victorian England and all it wrought around the world, such as the tidiness of vast, green lawns.
In the United States those values mix with an instant-gratification ethic, so now we want all the beauty of nature in tidy rows, and we want it now.
Unfortunately nature isn't terribly tidy, and mature natural landscapes can't be replicated (except maybe on a movie set) by engineers.
I didn't like dreadlocks the first time I saw them, because of that inherent messiness. I do think that mature locks are pretty damned impressive. Trying to get there is a great way to get over it.
My five-year mission: to explore strange new hairstyles, to seek out ways to keep locks neat and clean, to boldly go where no man has gone before with dreadlocks.
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