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Statues of controversial people are getting ripped down
these
days as a sort of second cousin to book burning.
How about statues that encourage commentary? Statues
of
controversial figures that have an effect on the present
day
like Karl Marx for instance. Let people have their say
about
the guy.
Chalk would be supplied and the winter rains would wash
away the commentary to clear the way for the next
commentators.
You could also have non controversial guys like Jimmie
Hendrix where people could write positive stuff, draw
flowers and whatnot.
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Why only two thousand years? Can you see any shortage of
horrible shit in the millenia before them? |
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I suspect that it's harder to name names beyond two
millennia. |
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[Maxwell Buchanan], the earliest name-identified person is
Iry-Hor, from Egypt, 5,200 years ago. So that's the extreme
limit (not saying he was a perpetrator of horrible shit).
[bigsleep] absolutely. "Those who ignore the mistakes of the
past are doomed to repeat them" (or words to that effect; I
forget who said it). |
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If you can't remember the act, the act is obviously a new experience. |
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//not saying he was a perpetrator of horrible shit// |
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Indeed; he probably established himself as the ruler of Egypt and
had his name laboriously carved on stones entirely by patient
consensus-building and friendly persuasion. |
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