Let’s say that change is neither good nor bad. It simply is. It can be treated with terror or joy — a tantrum that says, ‘I want it the way it was,’ or a dance that says, ‘Look — something new.’ … I was in California. Everything is new, and it’s clean. The people are filled with hope. New York City is in decay. But Madison Square Garden — it’s the beginning of a new city on a hill.
Don Draper from Mad Men. Part of a longer TrueHoop piece on the original opposition to create MSG. “Four decades later, it’s ironic that the building that was the bête noire of architectural preservationists has become the defining symbol of basketball preservationists — a receptacle for the sort of sentimentalism that fueled the opposition to its creation.” File under: Change, embrace it.
