At face value, you’re right. His mark is pointless, and in the colosseum case, degrading even.
But a lot of ancient buildings are nowadays studied for the marks found on them. If you squint your mind’s eye a bit, you can even imagine that some of the cave paintings that we nowadays admire are nothing but a testament to some dude’s wish to leave their mark. No one cared until someone started to care.
So he’d scratch his name on the glass of a bus stop, and that would be ok? How about carving his name in a tree?
No one give a f* about your mark.
At face value, you’re right. His mark is pointless, and in the colosseum case, degrading even.
But a lot of ancient buildings are nowadays studied for the marks found on them. If you squint your mind’s eye a bit, you can even imagine that some of the cave paintings that we nowadays admire are nothing but a testament to some dude’s wish to leave their mark. No one cared until someone started to care.
Funny how relative all these things are, right?
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