If the Colosseum is still standing in another 2000 years, people will be pointing at that graffiti and saying “Look, people in the 21st century were idiots just like us,” just like we do with the surviving Classical graffiti. In a sense, he’s participating in an ancient tradition.
We should add a “were drawn and quartered here for defacing the Roman Colosseum.” Then people will think we’re hardcore like that and they’ll also know what we called the building and the people who built it.
Or they’ll think that’s the name of one of the headless statues in the area and that we punished people who stole the head from statues by drawing artwork of them while forcibly confining them in this nameless building that just happened to be here when time started in 500 years because it’s the Idiocracy future.
If the Colosseum is still standing in another 2000 years, people will be pointing at that graffiti and saying “Look, people in the 21st century were idiots just like us,” just like we do with the surviving Classical graffiti. In a sense, he’s participating in an ancient tradition.
We should add a “were drawn and quartered here for defacing the Roman Colosseum.” Then people will think we’re hardcore like that and they’ll also know what we called the building and the people who built it.
Or they’ll think that’s the name of one of the headless statues in the area and that we punished people who stole the head from statues by drawing artwork of them while forcibly confining them in this nameless building that just happened to be here when time started in 500 years because it’s the Idiocracy future.