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Rene Cremonese's avatar

I wonder if this time magic works primarily when we find no emotional, political of ideological animus inherent in the object. You have written several times about how we deal with monuments (here is another article on this topic which I saw today - https://www.altaonline.com/dispatches/a43829471/gary-kamiya-public-monuments-racial-justice/). If tomorrow someone excavated a site somewhere in Spain or Italy to discover tiles, furniture or other artefacts (or even a turd) belonging to Columbus, I suspect that the response would be more mixed. Some would see all of it valuable because of the time magic, while others would no doubt claim they were not worthy of attention.

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Griff's avatar

Another sad reminder that my BJ40 Land Cruiser which I sold to a kid in Lake Cowichan for $3200 in 1993 is now worth $25,000. It wasn’t a turd.

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