the amount of information lost forever every day is astounding
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the curation of physical artifacts is important. without them no one would believe half of what happened I bet
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I think the 20th century has really faded. Will be gone from discourse and then from living memory, before too many decades go by.
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I worry about this in a certain way and it's one reason I have dead tree https://twitter.com/ZoomLanderCap/status/1371415029250203653?s=19 …
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do you go to museums?
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back in the old days yeah
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literal iceboxes are just now passing from living memory
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Museums are a consequence of Colonialism. For millennia, people preserved their heritage through culture and stories. The European colonial era destroyed that and stole their artefacts as trophies to display. The modern narrative around museums is a veil hiding the ghastly past
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The origin of museums is a little more practical and circumstantial—opening of private collections from the nobility to the public, and most important of all—for the state to train its artists back in the day. They still serve this crucial role for artists.
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but yes art itself highlights this oblivion, and our ever present struggle to resist it—look at this, it was made and everything that made it and gave its creator joy and succor has died—but listen closely enough and you still might hear a whisper.
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