07-20-2017, 10:34 AM
(07-20-2017, 10:13 AM)Viewfromthe42 Wrote: That's a very dangerous sentiment I'm very much against, preservation for the sake of preservation. I have fond memories of being in a foreign country and going on a visit to a farm. They were talking about building a new farmhouse to accommodate new family members, and would be getting rid of the old one, which he said was a quarter-millenia old. It wasn't in great or terrible shape, wasn't anything particularly noteworthy based on what he was saying, and the farmer's sense of providing jobs and food for people took priority over keeping something around because it had been around for some time resonated with me, and still does today.
I believe that you've misunderstood the D'Amato piece. She was simply commenting on the phenomenon of quickly forgetting the details of the "before" when a streetscape changes. I know I have often experienced it myself. Yes, it is "history slipping away", but D'Amato is, at most, waxing nostalgic about it.