The turn to privacy can be seen in the re-embace of home cooking, the organic, and slow food as a reaction to an industrial food system degraded by pollutants and chemicals and corporate neglect. Many are looking to domesticity in search of a simpler, more sustainable, more meaningful way of life because the government regulators cannot be trusted.
Another return to privacy is taking snapshots for oneself on daily walks --such as the Adelaide-Himeji Garden in Adelaide's south parklands. It is an activity that we perform for our own satisfaction and pleasure whilst ignoring the work of self-perfection that contemporary capitalism expects of us in public life.
The Himeji Garden, which was a gift from Adelaide's sister city, Himeji in 1982, celebrates Adelaide's sister-city relationship with the ancient Japanese city of Himeji. The enclosure, which is one of only a few classical Japanese Gardens in Adelaide, blends two classic Japanese styles, the lake and mountain garden and the dry garden. It is unimpressive.