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And complaints about people taking selfies might also be misguided. Tourists used to carve their initials into the stones or chip bits off! I'm pretty sure a selfie is less distracting to others then the merry peal of hammers slowly dismantling the monument.

Again, people have interacted with it in similar ways for centuries now, either by writing about it, painting it, carving chunks off it or taking photographs of it. Only the means has changed.