Rocamadour, France. It looks like medieval coal country to me. Maybe Kentucky with real knights, or Pennsylvania with a King and Queen. It’s a stunning view, over a tributary of the River Dordogne in the former province of Quercy.
In the U.S. we have many places to rival that of Europe, both Eastern and Western—but without marks of ancient civilization with some exceptions, such as the Hopi cliff dwellings. The rest of us just haven’t been here that long, and most of the cultures that preceded us here didn’t leave these kinds of marks.
We Americans don’t build with the idea permanence, not of the kind medievals did. If you live in the western half of the U.S. and Left Coast in particular, it’s painfully obvious. Our lack shouts from our architecture.
Look at some the Gothic architecture that has survived, born in the so-called Dark Age. What a misnomer.
If that age was dark, what are we living in? The Lightless Age?
It’s funny I do look at Europe that way,that sense of permanency even when I was in Portugal, it seem like the people there were living at home like a big family and it looked like not everybody got along, but they were stuck together and they knew it. So they make the best of it. Here we’ve got so much space we can just move and find a big piece of land and have neighbours far away.
If something is old here it might be 80-100 years old. In one of the old colonial towns there might be something left from the mid-1700s. In Trier, Germany, I walked through the ruins of a Roman colloseum, we were in the basement under the colloseum floor where they kept the animals and gladiators. We complain in the US if our Wal-mart hasn't beenv remodelled since the 1970's. We have no real culture.
It’s funny I do look at Europe that way,that sense of permanency even when I was in Portugal, it seem like the people there were living at home like a big family and it looked like not everybody got along, but they were stuck together and they knew it. So they make the best of it. Here we’ve got so much space we can just move and find a big piece of land and have neighbours far away.
If something is old here it might be 80-100 years old. In one of the old colonial towns there might be something left from the mid-1700s. In Trier, Germany, I walked through the ruins of a Roman colloseum, we were in the basement under the colloseum floor where they kept the animals and gladiators. We complain in the US if our Wal-mart hasn't beenv remodelled since the 1970's. We have no real culture.