adma
Superstar
Well, I'm glad the talking-point discussion is "back to normal", so to speak. What really concerned me was the initial chorus of cricket-chirps; and then the muller877 invocation of "fake news". Which made me wonder: "aw, jeez, has the tenor sunk *this* low already?
Maybe what scares me more is the thought of the muller877 POV reflecting an age when traditional news media like the G&M (and by extension, columnists like K.Boz) no longer carries the respect and authority it once did--indeed, his perspective on how the Globe works might as well be that of the modern media/news/info consumer who no longer regularly reads newspapers at all, much less the dead-tree variety. Neglect breeds mistrust, "my opinion and that of my buds is as good as anyone's"--the mentality of the comment thread, rather than that of what's being commented on.
Oh, and I agree with Alvin--in some ways, the problem at hand is less practical than philosophical; almost along the lines of "are we in a post-heritage age?" (And as I've mentioned before, the rough mentality catered to and served by this class-A-office-space-at-all-costs way of thinking also happens to be leading the rush-to-teardown in older, affluent-ish residential neighbourhoods.)
Also glad to hear Skeezix invoke Marcus Gee's column on the John Fisher school controversy--whose subject matter invokes, in its way, the worst of the "other side". (It's a little different re Davisville as opposed to John Fisher--like, an architect-led crusade rather than a NIMBY-led crusade.)
Maybe what scares me more is the thought of the muller877 POV reflecting an age when traditional news media like the G&M (and by extension, columnists like K.Boz) no longer carries the respect and authority it once did--indeed, his perspective on how the Globe works might as well be that of the modern media/news/info consumer who no longer regularly reads newspapers at all, much less the dead-tree variety. Neglect breeds mistrust, "my opinion and that of my buds is as good as anyone's"--the mentality of the comment thread, rather than that of what's being commented on.
Oh, and I agree with Alvin--in some ways, the problem at hand is less practical than philosophical; almost along the lines of "are we in a post-heritage age?" (And as I've mentioned before, the rough mentality catered to and served by this class-A-office-space-at-all-costs way of thinking also happens to be leading the rush-to-teardown in older, affluent-ish residential neighbourhoods.)
Also glad to hear Skeezix invoke Marcus Gee's column on the John Fisher school controversy--whose subject matter invokes, in its way, the worst of the "other side". (It's a little different re Davisville as opposed to John Fisher--like, an architect-led crusade rather than a NIMBY-led crusade.)