[coldtea]

>Not the "oh no, look their old world is gone" nonsense.

Taking for granted that that is nonsense, is the same error, a blind belief that any novelty is better than what it replaces.

There were political motivations behind the change (and impact on the population at the time) not just some noble march towards better.

To give a simple example, bulldozing down Venice to build some Mall-ridden monstrosity that looks like 20000 other places in the world, would not be better in any way, and people would be right to lament about that "old world" being gone.

(Of course many moderns, especially Americans having no history, live in a perpetual now, and can't put things into perspective. They judge all things like mobile phone models, the newer the better).