Advancement of Scientific Knowledge
The purpose of a museum is to preserve those critical artifacts that will explain the intricacies of our society to future generations, and even to future civilizations. By examining these artifacts, beings from the future will have a better understanding of those items that shaped twentieth century American culture.
Yup, Scientology (not Tom Cruise this time, but John Travolta) and Star 98.7 (the Partridge Family's Danny Bonaduce).
I laugh about this, but I'm certain that our entertainment activities could be instructive to future civilizations - as long as they understand that this was merely entertainment, and that "Up your nose with a rubber hose" was not a religous chant to the great god Epstein's mother's doctor.
(By the way, these exhibits can be found at the entrance to the lunchroom in the basement of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History.)
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