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arrow-up1248arrow-down1external-linkThe Great Wall of China Has Suffered 'Irreversible' Damage After Two Workers Excavated a Shortcut Through the Cultural Relicnews.artnet.com@[email protected] to World [email protected]English • 1 year agomessage-square32fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]world
minus-squareErtebollelinkfedilink32•1 year agoThe tourist-y parts of it are pretty much all newly rebuilt anyway; there’s not much of the original wall left at Mutianyu or Simatai or wherever.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish8•1 year agoOnly a matter of time before it becomes the Ship of Theseus
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•1 year agoThe whole point of that dumb thought experiment is that it’s already the Ship of Theseus and always was.
The tourist-y parts of it are pretty much all newly rebuilt anyway; there’s not much of the original wall left at Mutianyu or Simatai or wherever.
Now there’s even less of the original wall.
Only a matter of time before it becomes the Ship of Theseus
The whole point of that dumb thought experiment is that it’s already the Ship of Theseus and always was.