Comment 74203

By Kiely (registered) | Posted February 11, 2012 at 13:54:13 in reply to Comment 74186

Especially when the only public deabte in regards to the new HWDSB location is its proposed abandonment of the downtown.

And you can't assume that has any relevance to the decision makers. It is no secret many Hamiltonians don't give a flying fig about downtown.

The lamenting about tearing down a perfectly good building and abandoning downtown is wasted on those that simply do not care about these things... and there seems to be quite a few of those folks.

Some people's entire mindsets need to change, not just their opinions on individual topics. It often seems the more progressive side of the (many) debates in this city is always trying to change the opinions of the other side on an ad-hoc basis, (e.g., why a west harbour stadium made sense, why LRT is a good thing, why this or that building should be saved, etc…) but what really needs to change is not just those opinions but the mindset that leads people to believe those opinions are correct in the first place.

More so than creating two way streets, building LRT or turning the tide on derelict buildings, the fundamental thing that needs to be transformed in this city is the way many Hamiltonians think.

We are trying to solve 21st century problems with mid-20th century thinking in this city and nothing is really going to change for the big picture until that transformation happens... If it happens at all. After all we do have a mayor who got elected by promising to tear the city apart. A definite negative harbinger of things to come.

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