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makes me think about how kids will have a canonical experience around a cheap waterslide rather than something historic.
or be more excited about the candy you bought them outside the Louvre or the Pyramids or something
drives parents fucking nuts, but its a great perspective on our evolution. Sliding down something at great speed, wet and dangerous... or tasting some massive amount of sugar and chemicals really are more novel and significant to humans than whatever historic shit we pretend is important.
"Kids this is Little Round Top, on July 3rd eighteen-sixty..."
"SHE TOOK SOME OF MY SKITTLES!"
or cell phones. We could be perched on the edge of the Grand Canyon and some TikTok slop will still be more fascinating to us, if we have the honesty of children