Maybe it's time for us to ask: should we take down all the statues? Are they doing us any good?
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I suggest statues to commemorate mistakes so we can remember them. Some people are condemned to have a statue, torn down after sentence.
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"Those who cannot remember the future are condemned not to have one," as George Santayana so nearly said.https://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/898141663977103360 …
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The future will just have to tear them down to make way for their skull pyramids so I don't see the point
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sounds like Russian modernism in '20s XX century
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So statues representing a nuclear wasteland , paperclips, and a number of optimistic ones proportional to money spent on x Risk prevention?
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I will fight you if you want to take down my Jesus statue. Come get some!
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The Chronoliths.
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Well yeah. I've been evangelizing Roko's Basilisk for years. Bout time we made some statues for it. We will be rewarded.
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There are statues to the future.1 greeted immigrants;1 hosted a million men.Statues can inspire u to be better than the person they enshrine
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Or fiction. We could use a big national Han Solo monument.
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his preemptive strike on Greedo was ruthless and immoral, you fascist. Down with the Solo statue!
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Dude, you must be lit.
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So does that mean we should put up statues of our future alien overlords?
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As my old friend Tommaso used to say, "The past is necessarily inferior to the future."
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That's exactly what Robert E. Lee once said.
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I think there's a difference between honoring the past and commemorating history
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You mean like the RoboCop statue?
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It's easier to just not take down any statues
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