That (all the non-caveated tributes to Borglum) was one of the most confounding parts of the experience! I think I was expecting some sort of explanatory caveat (like the blurb that HBO Max runs before Gone With The Wind or that other National Park sites do with perfunctory land acknowledgments), but there was nothing on Borglum being a …
That (all the non-caveated tributes to Borglum) was one of the most confounding parts of the experience! I think I was expecting some sort of explanatory caveat (like the blurb that HBO Max runs before Gone With The Wind or that other National Park sites do with perfunctory land acknowledgments), but there was nothing on Borglum being a problematic dude. It definitely added to the "there is a protective bubble here that we can't smash, otherwise the faux-solemnity of the experience will be lost" feeling.
That (all the non-caveated tributes to Borglum) was one of the most confounding parts of the experience! I think I was expecting some sort of explanatory caveat (like the blurb that HBO Max runs before Gone With The Wind or that other National Park sites do with perfunctory land acknowledgments), but there was nothing on Borglum being a problematic dude. It definitely added to the "there is a protective bubble here that we can't smash, otherwise the faux-solemnity of the experience will be lost" feeling.