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Maybe you don't value history, but many people do. The point isn't entertainment, or the kind of entertainment you're imagining. Of course this won't compete on the streaming market. The point is that it is a time capsule of an age we've already forgotten.

I think most people also concluded that this was statement of my personal position. It certainly is not.

Oh, just trolling then?

I believe it's called 'playing devils advocate' or in this case sarcasm.

Unfortunately sarcasm doesn't come across very well on the internet.

Did you not intend for people to conclude this to be your personal position? Because there are ways to communicate that more clearly.

Because someone else might want to remember

And that someone else may be future me

Because you don't create the future by destroying the past.

Because you (making the decision) do not speak for the generations that will follow. In making that decision you are (arrogantly) assuming that you know the minds of all those that will follow and that they will agree with your assessment that "there's nothing to see here".

Perhaps you meant in the sense of a deliberate memory hole (in the Orwellian sense), in other words eliminating that which you don't want others to discover.