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The phrase from the talk that stuck with me is "places not worth caring about".
Thanks Robert; looking at the date of the speech makes me wonder if he was wasting his breath - the changes I see out here in the sticks are not getting made 'for the better'. In fact, the very culturally-established public 'desireables' we enjoyed even thirty years ago are being sacrificed to the greater conveniece of yet more tourists. Go to the main 'square' area of
old Alcudia after midday and you could be excused for imagining that you'd just stumbled into somebody's gigantic, communal dining room: a mess of a zillion set tables awaiting customers. How bloody romantic. Just the place to enjoy for your walk!
But yes, I think that the contemporary pardigm isn't a
broken one - but that it's just never been designed to fit the purpose of people, simply that of the money changers. And of course, even there it has a very finite life which, in the days when money was circulating in deep currents, meant that the constant cycle of renewal was profitable for many.
It takes but one girder across the line to derail the train.
Rob C
