Wisdom leads us back to childhood.

Despite my change of heart, people appear to have given up on 10 Murray. Similarly, even though there has been some belated effort to save her, she's going to be blown up and knocked down.

Thus, it is with a heavy heart that I concede that this week, Theme Thursday has hit the nail on the head. The consensus of the Tasmanian public is that the imposing princess of late-1960s functionalist architecture, 10 Murray Street, is well an truly OVER THE HILL.

They're knocking her down. Judged as an ugly testament to a period people would like to forget, the elite have conspired to concoct a death warrant for this misunderstood beauty and replace her with [and I am not making this up] a giant television screen. No doubt this television screen will continually remind us that we've always been at war with Eastasia.

Tasmanians are addicted to sandstone it seems. For Hobartions, the entire functionalist movement in architecture should be erased from history! The world over; works of Modern architecture are threatened with abuse, ridicule, neglect, thoughtless alterations, or - heaven forbid - total and utter annihilation with nary a care or concern.

Of course, you have no shortage of alert (but not alarmed) citizens nailing themselves to some squalid humpy rotting away in the back ally to preserve its heritage status, but don’t dare suggest that brutalists are people too. No, poor unappreciated beauties like 10 Murray are criticised for being a) OVER THE HILL, and b) not old enough to warrant saving. Talk about a hard task.

What a dull, uninspired world we shall live in when only tasteful little Georgian terraces are allowed to survive and anything else deemed unfit by a small cabal of elitist effeminate aesthetes is bulldozed to make way for their own narrow vision of what is worth preserving and what is not.