Paint vs. Aluminum Siding

I recently drove by a man painting his house. I mean that he was painting the exterior.

Do you remember when most people painted the exterior of their house?

This got me to thinking. Has aluminum siding contributed to a fundamental change in our culture? Because of the fact that we put this stuff that is supposed to look like wood on the exterior walls of our houses, we may have become less connected with our homes and our environment.

Furthermore, by putting this false wood on our houses, we have created more descretionary time. Just what we needed.

I am not saying that I want to go back to painting the house. I am just asking if the conversion of over the past thirty years has made a fundamental difference in our culture.

It sure seems like it.