Evolution of sorts

@awildsheepschase You're right about how we got here, but the lights are slowly showing red in the sense that society is loosing it's design and design agents to keep everything together and towards a better future. Everything is put in place for the single user instead of creating something of worth for the wider society and thus the so-called beam of higher culture is losing its grip too

@val70 Whatever that design was. I think people had a more communal sense when in a time when they had to see people. Old neighbourhoods were designed with walkability and community in design, I live in one of them and I see many people walking, but they don't design neighbourhoods like mine now. I find joy from people watching people walking, but it feels all new development is made only to make money. A sidewalk only one of the street, where any study would say you get people out more with a sidewalk on both side of the street. They overlook that, why? Because the dollar has become of more value than being human. We've sadly become (often) little experiments of how much we will put up with before we are tired,

I never borrow a book from my library. But I love my time there doing what I need from copying to printing. I love watching all of the walks coming in because I imagine a story of all of them.... and my reason (personal) why I never borrow a book, once I want a book I want it in my hand to forever read.

@awildsheepschase I know what you mean there, trust me, I do. But two summers ago was I at the site of the very first McDonalds in Cailfornia owned by the original borthers (before the business was highjacked by Ray Kroc) and the design of the places when compared to each other shows up what I'm trying to point to then too

@val70 I'm also watching with some humour, how my mayor who is very conservative and a library has become associated with addicts needing a place (wonder why?) wrestle how he supported spending $70 million on a library, where our federal government offered selling their postal office (desgined to hold millions pound of paper in a beautiful building) for $1 mil, paltry in amount. Can you imagine a post office in the 20s, when people cared about architecture and culture, could make for a beautiful library while offering heritage?

Illustrates how dumb we are.

@val70 That's living history in a way. But I'd never go there for the value of literature or a book, yet hopefully maybe someone took inspiration to write from. That old classic American story.

@awildsheepschase The same happened here back in the 90s. We got a big post office building from the 70s. The old librarian took it on himself to build a decent collection. The next one just tore the place down from the inside and now the space in the new building is reserved for reading to children and such, that's the events and activities. It's a Scandinavian thing that. Heavens knows how much they have destroyed

@val70 Scandinavian? Here it was never a librarian but some politician, always putting something off. I enjoy watching the mayor place himself in perpetual pickles defending what he never would unless he felt no choice.

This could have solved years ago with a lot of health and community but they waited so long it costs them rich.