What will last of all our toils?
The things distant historians will "remember" about us are likely to be pretty random. So much of what we know of the pastor think we know, anywayis based on stuff that happened to survive, despite time's attempts to shave it away.
Your blog or well-curated social media? Unlikely to make the cut. Think more along the lines of Ikea dishes, car parts, lawn gnomes, Legos, Barbies ... probably every piece of plastic you've ever touched that hasn't been slowly broken down into plankton food.
Then there's the statues: of General Custer, George Washington, that horrible gynecology man, various iterations of Medusa and Perseus, the Stock Market Bull, Fearless Girl. We take this habittrying to chisel some aspect of ourselves, symbolically or otherwise, into stone, praying immortality meets us halfwayfrom the many civilizations that came before us. We don't always know why they immortalized the people, stories or entities they did, but we know whywedo it.
You know what posterity could use? Statues of ad people. Ad people doing ad things: Staring at computers, eating pizza, "brainstorming." For its new global brand platform, "Ads That Work as Hard as You Do," Amazon Ads and Anomaly have created the Museum of Modern Advertisers, a neoclassical attempt to immortalize "the hardworking heroes of marketing and the seemingly ordinary moments that lead to extraordinary work."
See the gallery below:
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These Statues From Amazon Immortalize Ad-Biz Heroics - Muse by Clio
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