Message text written by "BP - His DNA is this long."
>Your last point is the critical one, absolutely central to this whole
discussion.  And really my lament.  My feeling is that the consumers are
not "good," or discriminating in many ways (life is a whirlwind, who has
time to check it all out?).  I think life warrants craftsmanship, for my
quality of life.  So few individuals seem to share that view.  I agree that
there is a place for the Butler Building metal shell.  Way, way, way in the
back of the industrial park.  Regretably, they are being constructed on the
entryway highway into my town, as an office building, with a neo faux
mansard wedgy that has been Mr. Potato-headed onto the upper edge of the
front of the box, supported by the cylindrical fiberglass classical
toothpicks on the outside corners.<

One of my greatest laments and fears is that someday someone will be
arguing for the historic preservation of Mr. Potato-headed wedgy buildings.
Are preservationists, by necessity, elitists? Is it a requirement that we
see ourselves as more enlightened than everyone else? Are we ever wrong?

Mike E.