Why people care about ancient buildings - The human spark
▻https://www.economist.com/leaders/2019/04/20/why-people-care-about-ancient-buildings
Plus intéressant, dans sa version papier, le sous-titre est : "It is not wrong to care more about a building than about people"
Voilà, voilà.
Ça et le fait « qu’on a tous un selfie devant la cathédrale » : voilà un « tous » particulièrement circonscrit !
It seems inhuman to care more about a building than about people. That the sight of Notre Dame going up in flames (see article) has attracted so much more attention than floods in southern Africa which killed over 1,000 arouses understandable feelings of guilt. Yet the widespread, intense grief at the sight of the cathedral’s collapsing steeple is in fact profoundly human—and in a particularly 21st-century way.