"amount of integrity or authenticity is
determined by the amount of knowledge...."
Good point.... knowledge or "the baggage"...  What is wrong with letting
those with less knowledge believe something is authentic that to an expert
may not be?  After all that expert may be enjoying some beliefs that are
false as well.  Is the belief in The Big Bang Theory or God more defensible
than the belief in the Easter Bunny?
Best,
Leland

----- Original Message -----
From: "Score, Robert" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001 5:24 PM
Subject: Re: Authenticity vs. integrity


> It all depeds on your perspective:
> To the crazey old man it is probably authentic because in his mind he
never
> bought a new ax.
>
> To the local ax sales man, that ax is a new ax and has nothing to do with
> the original ax.
>
> To the young lad listening to the old man's story about how he has been
> chopping wood with the same ax for the last 80 years. The ax has lots o
> intergrity and authenticity. The ax inspires the young lad with a sense of
> awe.
>
> The moral of the story is that perhaps Authenticity and Integrity are
> actually the mental impression that the person experiencing a building
walks
> away with in stead of the actual hunk of building that creates that
> impression. If this is true then the amount of integrity or authenticity
is
> determined by the amount of knowledge or myth an individual has about the
> building. And it is the experience that is most important instead of the
> object. Much the same way that Ralph's imitation design knock-offs from
the
> outlet mall bring him complete satisfation because he believes he found a
> bargin on the real deal.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ruth Barton [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001 6:15 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Authenticity vs. integrity
>
>
> OK you alls from the big cities, I got a ? for ya.  You alls have heard
the
> story about the old fella that was real attached to his "old ax."  He said
> the handle had been replaced 5 times and the blade twice but it was so
good
> to have an old fashioned tool that lasted so well.  Now for the ?, does
his
> ax have either integrity or authenticity?  Ruth
>
>
>
>
>
>
> At 7:28 AM -0600 3/22/01, Score, Robert wrote:
> >If integrity can be reproduced, does that mean that a reconstructed copy
of
> >a building has the same integrity as the original. If that is the case
then
> >Disney World  would have 5/8th the integrity of the countries in euroupe
> >which it so smartly copies at 5/8th scale or colonial williamsburg has
the
> >same integrity as it would if it were original. Unfortunatly, it seems to
> me
> >that once integrity or authenticity is carelessly destroyed it is at best
> >greatly reduced from its original, no matter how good the recreation.
That
> >is the premisis of preserving structures inlieu of letting them go to pot
> >and then recreating them when it is convient.
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Robert Cagnetta [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> >Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2001 5:59 AM
> >To: [log in to unmask]
> >Subject: Re: Authenticity vs. integrity
> >
> >
> >Integrity can be reproduced, authenticity cannot.
>
> --
> Ruth Barton
> [log in to unmask]
> Westminster, VT
> Remember in November
>