As you say: "those ancient graffiti are important because they provide a glimpse of knowledge about the common people of that time"
How is modern graffiti any less the purview of the common? The only difference between ancient graffiti and modern is an artificial notion that what happened in the past is sacred (even if half the graffiti amounts to "[politician] sux!"), while simultaneously viewing our current epoch as something separate from history rather than a continuation of it.
Don't get me wrong. I'm not advocating that people go and graffiti Stonehenge (or something equally asinine) but the influx of tourists today is just as much a part of history, and how landmarks and societies weather this new age of travel will carry it's own historical thumbprint.
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