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Originally Posted by grannyclaret
whats a panoptican ?????????
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A Panoptican is a modern version of a Folly. Our Victorian & Edwardian forefathers, however, who built numerous follies on hill tops around Lancashire - Darwen Tower is probably the best known local example - knew how to build with wit, grace and style, and how to build something that would stand the test of time.
The modern Panotican, has nothing of these attributes. It is cheap to construct, serves only to disfigure the natural landscape and like the history of most public works of art in Accrington (such as the Scaitcliffe Fountain), has a shelf life somewhat less than that of a fruit fly. It's only purpose is to justify the spending of public money by various quangos and bureaucrats who have no other reason for being in existance.
There are of course, some very gullible people in the world, not least those who appear to have attended the Town hall meeting on saturday. It does look like many were so easily hoodwinked by the slick spin the artist and his bureaucrat paymasters put out. I can well imagine a thousand years ago these very same people buying up a chicken bone on the basis that it was the finger of Christ. Some are so dumb, you can sell 'em 'out.