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Date: July 13, 2020 11:05PM
This is the ancient city of Teotihuacan.
https://universes.art/en/art-destinations/mexico/tour/teotihuacanThe city was ransacked sometime in the seventh century AD.
No one really knows exactly why, but there is reason to believe that Teotihuacan experienced episodes of internal unrest and social upheaval that eventually ended urban activity in the city. Prominent areas the city were burned while less developed area of the city were largely left untouched.
This is a statue of Ramesses the Great.
Ramesses erected colossal statues of himself all over Egypt.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramesses_IIWhy? We see these monuments as Egyptian art. But what else were they? Were they just symbols of his authority or was he a ruthless dictator? We don't know with any certainty.
In the case of Kim Il-Sung, we do know.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mansu_Hill_Grand_Monument.
But what would an alien civilisation who had no knowledge of Earth history or languages think? They would just see the statues and portraits without knowing what they represented.
Now we come to the current monument situation.
The vast majority of Confederate monuments in America were erected during the Jim Crow era as part of the "Lost Cause" revisionist history movement. They never thought the time would come when people would reject the ideology that erected them.
Confederate Statue Pulled Down in Durham, NC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPYGmFpaPt4Things change. Attitudes change.
The racist attitudes Joe Smith and others put in "The Book Of Mormon" didn't last forever. They didn't foresee a time when people would find racism repugnant.
Monuments are for the living, not the dead.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 07/13/2020 11:15PM by anybody.