by Gabe

Created on: October 23, 2010

The Paul Bunyan logging camp museum sounds like the most boring time in the world. Seriously, a logging camp museum? I don't even think loggers want to be at a logging camp.

The fact that people would want to take their kids to this sort of thing show how dull some people can really be. I mean if you're going to spend money to go somewhere, why go back in time? Take your kids to Disney world, Six Flags, a Museum of Science or something really fun like that!

Is it possible to hear anyone under 60 years of age saying, "Gee! I really sure would like to go to Paul Bunyan Logging Camp Museum, I often find myself feeling nostalgic for those old days when a bunch of guys could just hang out in the woods, getting sweaty and cutting down trees!" I sincerely doubt that.

I'll admit that I don't know much about the logging camp in question but I do know what "Logging camp" means and I have enough of a grasp of the concept of a museum to know that I definitely would not wish a visit to this place on my worst enemy.

Doing a quick search on Yahoo Travel, I can see that there are no reviews and no photos for this place, in addition to their main website being off-line. What it seems like is that people that have access to the Internet (people under 60) have no interest in visiting a goddamn LOGGING CAMP!

I'm sure there are some reasons to partake in an activity such as this, perhaps seeing how people used to live or maybe it's the tranquility that is usually associated with...uh, logging camps. Who knows? All I know is that if people don't stop diving into the past as a means of recreation, we're going to unintentionally find ourselves back in the stone age.

What there needs to be, what people need to visit for their vacations, are museums of the future. Futuristic museums talking about all the technological advancements going on now and how they will inevitably affect the future.

The past, it just keeps building up. The past is just an attic of old junk that we're too sentimental to throw away. Let's learn to let go. Not that reconstructions of 19th century logging camps are evil or holding back society, but perhaps there's a real reason these things are in the past. Perhaps it would have been better to just forget about the loggers and all the trees they felled. Perhaps it would just be better to instead look towards a bright and more exciting future for all of us. Maybe, just maybe, it's a better idea to go to Disney world.

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