This is very interesting. I think you are very right in that we are divorced from death and life in the same moment of sundering and such sanitisation is not necessarily healthy.
Specifically relating to museums, there is a romance to old dust and memory...but children(people?)will learn more in a playground than in a cemetary. Simulation attempts to create empathy;how do you feel now? This is how they felt...and I think that has a very important function. History is not dead, though death is a part of it, and nature is very much about life with death being only part of the cycle. How better to understand that than to live it, just for a moment or so?
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Date: 2008-04-13 10:36 am (UTC)Specifically relating to museums, there is a romance to old dust and memory...but children(people?)will learn more in a playground than in a cemetary. Simulation attempts to create empathy;how do you feel now? This is how they felt...and I think that has a very important function. History is not dead, though death is a part of it, and nature is very much about life with death being only part of the cycle. How better to understand that than to live it, just for a moment or so?