It irks me that I only learn of the destruction of things from news and not their existence.
That was a neat arch - and I bet there is hundreds of them all across the globe and I never heard of most of them. But the moment they collapse they will be in the news.

[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

I mean, if there was an article just talking about it being a thing people go see, it would have been labelled as "tabloid", "shill", "slop", "sponsored by Italian tourism board", or "guess they're running out of ideas if they need to write about something that's existed for millions of years."

Not saying those comments are right or wrong, just an observation. IMO it's a symptom of our over-dependence on private news/media outlets even in the internet age, and how the news has eroded our trust so much that we'll immediately have those thoughts.

[–] Courantdair@jlai.lu 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Also, attracting too much attention on places like this is creating new mass tourism spots and that's not desirable imo.

Especially for "Instagrammable" spots which would be raided by thousands of people trying to get the exact same picture.

[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

And eventually one of those "prankster" influencers will vandalize it and ruin it forever just for one stupid video to ride the wave of interest in the location and make outrage click money.

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