Bust of Lincoln Destroyed
Aug. 18th, 2017 04:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ysabetwordsmithSo this happened.
The same principle behind this leads to this and this.
I told you so. I have been saying and saying that when a society starts pulling down statues, it tends to mushroom, because people get it in their heads they can destroy all the art they dislike. Sure it's tempting. Everybody loves to pull down something they hate and stomp on it. That's very gratifying. But it's a bad idea because it destroys the past and then nobody has nice things for a long time. It also sucks when other people pull down stuff that YOU like just because THEY don't, and there is probably not one piece of art on the planet which is liked by everyone.
Seriously, people, stop doing this shit. Unpopular art can be moved to a place where it won't annoy folks, but destroying it is counter-civilization.
The same principle behind this leads to this and this.
I told you so. I have been saying and saying that when a society starts pulling down statues, it tends to mushroom, because people get it in their heads they can destroy all the art they dislike. Sure it's tempting. Everybody loves to pull down something they hate and stomp on it. That's very gratifying. But it's a bad idea because it destroys the past and then nobody has nice things for a long time. It also sucks when other people pull down stuff that YOU like just because THEY don't, and there is probably not one piece of art on the planet which is liked by everyone.
Seriously, people, stop doing this shit. Unpopular art can be moved to a place where it won't annoy folks, but destroying it is counter-civilization.
Re: Thoughts
Date: 2017-08-19 09:06 pm (UTC)When I was researching Berlin before we went there, I discovered an island with three museums on it. I thought that was very cool, sadly we didn't have time to visit it. I don't know that I've heard of a statuary park, but what an excellent purpose for an island. You could do a man-made island in a lagoon in a park, have a nice bridge or paddle boat connection to it. That could be all sorts of awesome. Or a chain of islands with moon bridges between them that boats/canoes could pass under. Unfortunately my area isn't temperately suited to such use of water. A few years ago our main river, the Rio Grande, was low enough that you could pretty much run across it.
Re: Thoughts
Date: 2017-08-19 09:35 pm (UTC)That does sound awesome.
>>A few years ago our main river, the Rio Grande, was low enough that you could pretty much run across it.<<
Yeah, they're going to have a hard time defending that wetfoot/dryfoot schtick when there's no water left. :P