$35 sculpture found at an Austin Goodwill was looted from a museum during WWII

Re:$35 sculpture found at an Austin Goodwill was looted from... by labster on Friday May 06, 2022 @12:06AM (#31281194)

Kids these days. If they’re not addicted to novelty and the social media algorithm, they’re freebasing historical preservation. I’m honestly not sure how you square the circle between obviously consumerist trends like fast fashion and mass-produced “collectibles” with fetishization of preservation and franchise-based popular culture. It kind of seems like different people like different stuff?

Of course if you’re talking about architecture, there’s lots of fetishization of the not-very-old stuff from last century, because They don’t want you to know that we lost the building techniques of the Tartarian Empire. Or something.

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Re:$35 sculpture found at an Austin Goodwill was looted from... by stormbrew on Friday May 06, 2022 @12:35AM (#31281364)

Even within disposable consumer goods people stick random products from the 80s in plexiglass and call it precious and sell it for hundreds of thousands of dollars. There's an idea out there that actually "using" a product like an old video game is somehow debasing it. In the end though I don't think people have much choice on the consumer product side of things. It is what it is for various reasons.

But really I'm talking about broader social trends and what we do at the society level. Yes, architecture. Mustn't tear down that building that no one has been able to live in for 20 years, it's sacred. But also relics, ideas, monuments to even monumentally stupid and awful things, etc.

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Re:$35 sculpture found at an Austin Goodwill was looted from... by ElSinchi on Friday May 06, 2022 @12:21AM (#31281284)

We should upload historical artifacts to the Blockchain and they will live forever as NFTs.

Problem solved

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