Use It Up, Throw It Out, Build A New One...

Here's a picture of the "old" (by American standards) Memorial Bridge that spans Bismarck-Mandan on the Missouri River, and just behind it you can see pillars for the brand spanking new Post-Post-Modern bridge. Before construction started, there was a small effort in the Historic Preservation community to refurbish and rebuild the Memorial Bridge, but it seems it's easier in America to just use it up, throw it out, and build a new one. Whatever. Check out Simon Schama's "Landscape and Memory" if you don't know why this might be problematic some day for Western Civilization. That's all.

I snapped the picture a couple weeks ago.

~mft