I am not a fan of these super-natural art projects. It is one thing to make a statue that might stand for a thousand years ... or not. It is another to designate forest land and other resources, to attempt to lock them away from use by future generations.
The legal system dealt with this hundreds of years ago. We cannot have "dead hands" dictating how future generations should live and work. The proper vehicle for such things is government. Donate the land as a park or nature preserve and cross your fingers that your intent will be respected.
A similar worry developed around the concept of compound interest. Some semi-rich people wanted to park money in bank accounts for a few generations in order to make thier great-grandkids into powerful people... with explicit instructions on how to use that money/power. Such multi-generation shenanigans are against the general public interest.
slipperybeluga 3 hours ago [-]
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SanjayMehta 2 hours ago [-]
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dang 2 hours ago [-]
"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."
We typically use the word "art", which, yes, is often performative and sometimes nonsense!
Not all art is to everyone's taste, and that's ok too. You don't have to enjoy this art piece. I find the idea of creating something that I cannot possibly enjoy to be quite poignant. But hey, I'm sure you have art you enjoy that I do not.
hellojomp 1 hours ago [-]
We are so starved for aura we have to farm into the future now, I too would like to dine.
jonhohle 3 hours ago [-]
> At the end of the project, the full anthology of texts will be printed using paper made from trees from the Future Library forest
remind me in 88 years.
Also, file in “things that will never happen.”
yahthatsart 2 hours ago [-]
Those trees will mature in 2050ish timeframe. If this person put together a trust to manage the particulars, they might be alive to ensure the trees get harvested and processed into paper.
Trees get turned into paper every day, I'm sure there's a paper mill willing to take the work, especially in Northern Europe.
IncreasePosts 2 hours ago [-]
I like to imagine futures where they judge us through their standards as harshly as we judge the past through our standards.
So, instead of some future people celebrating this project, they just think "Ew, what kind of monster would wish harm on a beautiful old tree?"
classified 12 minutes ago [-]
Or they look on it with nostalgia because by then most people use emoji as written communication and have never learned to read.
The legal system dealt with this hundreds of years ago. We cannot have "dead hands" dictating how future generations should live and work. The proper vehicle for such things is government. Donate the land as a park or nature preserve and cross your fingers that your intent will be respected.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_against_perpetuities
A similar worry developed around the concept of compound interest. Some semi-rich people wanted to park money in bank accounts for a few generations in order to make thier great-grandkids into powerful people... with explicit instructions on how to use that money/power. Such multi-generation shenanigans are against the general public interest.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Not all art is to everyone's taste, and that's ok too. You don't have to enjoy this art piece. I find the idea of creating something that I cannot possibly enjoy to be quite poignant. But hey, I'm sure you have art you enjoy that I do not.
remind me in 88 years.
Also, file in “things that will never happen.”
Trees get turned into paper every day, I'm sure there's a paper mill willing to take the work, especially in Northern Europe.
So, instead of some future people celebrating this project, they just think "Ew, what kind of monster would wish harm on a beautiful old tree?"