[hidroto]

To an archeologist both artifacts are worth having, just look at Pompeii the frescoes tell you alot but the graffiti on the sides of the buildings tells you something as well.

[inglor_cz]

I think the implication is that within that time period which separates Voyagers from today, we have become distrustful or ashamed of the higher parts of the culture, and that such a dysbalanced situation is fairly new, with hard-to-predict consequences.

[qlm]

Sounds like reactionary nonsense to me. It's just some names. It's not indicative of the debasement of society.

[nozzlegear]

Surely the people at NASA who are launching probes aren't the ones who've become distrustful or ashamed of higher culture.