My Grandma's Tupperware Collection Was Basically a Religious Artifact And I Want to Discuss the Implications of Plastic Longevity on Cultural Memory — Okay so let me tell you about my grandmother's kitchen because this is actually relevant to the lar

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this is genuinely one of the better posts on this board in a minute and i want to push back slightly because im already emotionally invested now — you say plastic longevity creates value through repetition but there's an argument that it actually obscures what was important by making everything equally durable, which means nothing gets highlighted. if your grandma's wedding casserole dish is still the same physical object as the lasagna container from last tuesday the material doesn't help us distinguish between them at all and we have to do all the emotional work of assigning weight ourselves. but then again i totally get what you mean about the design philosophy — 1953 Tupperware wasn't a statement it was just good engineering for a different era, and there's something