March 9, 2018: Del Rio News-Herald * From Page 1 A * Letter to the Editor * Traditionville and Modernville
Letter to the Editor,
Traditionville and Modernville
Once upon a time in the serene, sleepy city of Centerville everyone lived in congenial community and courteous civility, but then some increasingly grew wearily-tired and jadedly-bored of all that was old-fashioned and traditionally-conventional; they wanted everything to be innovatively-new and modernly-contemporary.
Some remained dedicated and devoted to all that was old and traditional; they wanted nothing that was newfangled and currently up-to-date.
The once docile, dormant city of Centerville grew aggressively alienated and deeply divided.
Some citizens of Centerville treasured the old and
traditional; while others trashed the new and modern.
Some Centerville residents trashed the
ancient and antiquated; while others treasured the fashionable and in
vogue.
They each typically treasured what the other trashed.
The once peaceful, placid city of Centerville was eventually split-down the middle-of-the-road.
On the right side of the road, all the
traditionalists lived; while on the left side of the road, all the
modernists lived.
The traditionalist and the modernist parts of town grew, until there was nobody who lived in Centerville anymore.
Centerville became a ghost town with
empty edifices, hollow homes, no heart and soul.
The modernists and
the traditionalists each had their own separate and distinct
lives; they wanted nothing to do with the
other.
They each lived in their entrenched enclaves and echo chambers.
Because there were no centrists left in Centerville, the city was eventually dissolved; the town of Traditionville and the metro area of Modernville came into being.
Traditionville townsfolk kept their town
just as it had always been; Modernville citizens changed everything;
nothing stayed the same.
The citizens of Traditionville unanimously voted to keep the status
quo, preserve and protect everything that was historic and
venerable; the citizens of Modernville unanimously
voted to change everything that was from a by-gone era with
something that was state-of-the-art, cutting-edge, as quickly and
swiftly as they could.
Those in Modernville who didn’t want to change were told they had to move to Traditionville; those in Traditionville who wanted to change were told they had to move to Modernville.
Marian Casillas, Ed.D.
Del Rio