Well, neither art nor history have any real use value, so I'm not sure their disappearance would have much of an impact, really. People seem to respond more to things of material value.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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