My parents live up in New Hampshire, and they told me about a large Indian statue that was going to be removed soon because it's basically rotting away. Apparently, people are devastated by this. So devastated that when someone started a GoFundMe account to fix the statue, it raised a grand total of about $1,000, no where near the amount needed to actually you know, fix the statue.
I had to chuckle. People love being depressed and outraged over things, but they don't love it enough to actually open their own checkbooks to try and stop it. Sure, the people who donated money have every right to be depressed about it, but no one else does. If you didn't donate your own money, then you obviously don't care enough to fix the problem-so move on and try to find something else to be nostalgic about.
It reminds me of Sears/JC Penny/every other dying retail store. People act nostalgic about it, but if they cared enough about it in the first place, then the store probably wouldn't have gone under in the first place. It's the same (more or less) with this statue. People care about the statue, but if more people cared about it, then it would have gotten the repairs needed to fix it so it wouldn't go anywhere.
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