"Pleasure Spots" is an essay published in 1946 by the English author George Orwell.
Orwell quotes a journalist who met an entrepreneur planning a "pleasure spot" with a weather-proof roof covering acres of dance halls, bars, skittle alleys and swimming pools and bathed in artificial sunlight.
Orwell notes that Kubla Khan in Samuel Coleridge's poem has got it all wrong in decreeing a pleasure dome containing sacred rivers and measureless caverns.
In contrast the notion of admiring nature is bound up with the sense of man's littleness against the power of the universe.
When much of what goes by the name of pleasure is an attempt to destroy consciousness, Orwell argues that man equally needs solitude, creative work and wonder and that the highest happiness does not lie in relaxing, resting, playing poker, drinking and making love simultaneously.