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Are all changes good?
It is a commonly held belief that as people get older, they become resistant to change. Their complaints that things used to be better in the past or 1 some new development is no good can be dismissed as the unavoidable thoughts of people who 2 (simple) don't like change and are therefore 3 (able) to see the benefits of progress.
But is this automatically true? Are the views of an older person on a new development always to be disregarded? This would suggest that every new development must be a good 4 and surely that cannot logically be 5 case.
Take 6 (architect) for example. In the 1950s and 1960s, many older British people were highly critical of the new concrete housing blocks that suddenly sprang up in cities, 7 (say) that they were ugly and depressing places to live in. They were 8 (tell) that they were simply being old-fashioned and that they were incapable of appreciating the advantages of these new buildings, which had replaced the streets of small houses that they were familiar with. 9 decades later, these very same blocks were being pulled 10 , as new generations decided they were both ugly and bad for society.