075 - Why Do People Build Huge Statues?
Added 2020-01-17 01:05:32 +0000 UTCThis seems like a super-simple question, but kicking this one around got us to some very interesting places.
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This might be relevant to the discussion of new monuments - how do you design and build a monument to last 10,000 years. And what if that monument was actually a mechanical device that had to last those 10,000 years without regular maintenance? http://longnow.org/clock/
2020-04-30 02:50:12 +0000 UTCAn interesting Statue/Monument that I have not seen, but is supposedly the largest granite monument https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Monument_to_the_Forefathers. It seems like an effort to express some good values.
2020-01-21 02:52:32 +0000 UTCThinking about what China could be brought to mind the end of 'That Hideous Strength' (C. S. Lewis). There's a comment to the affect that progress toward goodness results in more distinctiveness, not more uniformity. "If one is thinking simply of goodness in the abstract, one soon reaches the fatal idea of something standardized—some common kind of life to which all nations ought to progress. Of course, there are universal rules to which all goodness must conform. But that's only the grammar of virtue. It's not there that the sap is. He doesn't make two blades of grass the same: how much less two saints, two nations, two angels. The whole work of healing Tellus depends on nursing that little spark...which is still alive in every real people and different in each. When Logres really dominates Britain, when the goddess Reason...is really enthroned in France, when the Order of Heaven is really followed in China—why, then it will be spring." It's delightfully hopeful to imagine the things that are best/coolest/most lovable about people being perfected. As opposed to just hoping the frustrating stuff goes away.
2020-01-17 04:13:26 +0000 UTCWoot! Thanks for the birthday present, guys!
DarthMeowry
2020-01-17 01:22:09 +0000 UTC
