Rare vs Banal

Munich Mike admired some picture-postcard vacation photos.

Thanks, Mike, but there's nothing to distinguish them from about a billion others. Not that it matters, I guess. If a disaster out of "Star Trek" destroyed the human race and most of the stuff we've made, leaving just a few photographs, then and only then would photos like these, discovered by archaeologists from a distant colony, eager for evidence of their ancestors' genius, be feted as super-duper. I suspect that's why we value most of the otherwise cruddy stuff we turn up in ancient tombs, made to flatter some politician who died of a surfeit in the Year of the Big Wind.