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Because they are not trying to be anything other than what they are -- any beauty they contain is functional -- they also transmit the subtexts of their time. The "meaning" of the placement of the ridges and holes in the take-out beverage lids reveal all kinds of things about how and where these beverages are being sold and consumed. The designs will tell folks in the future far more about our lives today than tiny models of Darth Vader.