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No one is stopping you from discarding all those sentimental things in your own life. A bit presumptuous to lecture others on it. Maybe cloning the exact tree
by antisthenes 3y ago
No one is stopping you from discarding all those sentimental things in your own life.
A bit presumptuous to lecture others on it.
Maybe cloning the exact tree is silly, but replacing it is absolutely not. This was a valuable tourist site, and just like anything of value, you replace it when lost.
You would replace your shoes or car keys if you lost them, right?
- card_zero 3y agoI'm not sure. Speaking as an extremely silly person, I'm liable to go barefoot, or do anything. But I think we should all be self-aware about these matters if possible. Like I said at the start, it was a nice tree, I like trees. I think it was mainly a nice tree because it was nicely framed, though, and in a movie with Kevin Costner and that awful Bryan Adams song in it. The subsequent snowballing of sentimentality around the significance of the material traces of the memory of the tree in the significant movie is ... it all has a wild memetic life of its own. I don't suppose it's harmful, but it's a strange outgrowth. The main point I'm making here is not so much "stop being silly" as "oh, look at that".