Georgia Guidestones - Huge granite stones inscribed with words of advice that the author intended to “guide humanity forward”, destroyed in 2022
They didn't seem terribly useful, compared to other long projects.
Basically, a freethinker version of the Ten Commandments tablets.
The listed weights and dimensions are the most useful things to me. Knowing the approximate weight of a kilogram and length of a meter would be incredibly useful when trying to recreate things you find in records
Openly advocating genocide and eugenics? Yeah, definitely not what I would call useful
If you read "Guide reproduction wisely - improving fitness and diversity" as eugenics and genocide, I think you might be jumping the gun a bit based on personal biases. Population bottlenecks require you to be very careful about species-wide gene pools. In a population of 10,000, you don't want Cletus reproducing with his first cousin.
You could argue the opposite, genocide would be guiding reproduction away from diversity.
Conspiracists attributed nefarious intent on these stones. I learned about them from a podcast that studies conspiratorial thinking. I didn't realize they'd been destroyed. I kinda think I heard that ep after the time when they were bombed, so maybe that was mentioned and I didn't internalize it.
Heads-up: conspiracy people are potentially dangerous. They blew up these stones that were probably pretty trivial / harmless. They have shot people for perceived great-replacement bullshit (synagogs). This shit isn't just amusing and stupid. They're irrational and they can project and cause harm.
An entertaining watch on the Guidestones prior to its destruction: https://youtu.be/AEa3sK1iZxc
The supposed creator was a fan of David Duke of the KKK…
Why was it destroyed?
A politician said they were satanic. So someone bombed them. People are crazy.
It was bombed, as some people in our society deemed it "satanic".
Post-2020 republican doomerism
Source: I live nearby
These had their version of the Ten Commandments in eight languages. I suppose it was bombed because mah gud.
They were quite likely put up by folks that believed the same wack job shit as those that destroyed them.
If they were meant to survive nuclear apocalypse, then why did one small non-nuclear bomb bring them down? You'd think they should be better constructed or protected or something.
Elbert County, Georgia. A county with about 20k people in it.
They didn't need to withstand a direct hit. Just the fallout/nuclear winter that would kill most of humanity.
I see. I guess odds were pretty low that a nuclear bomb would lay waste to a rural town.
As an aside, I wonder why they used so many languages if the nuclear winter survivors would have been rural Georgians like the ones who built the monument. I don't imagine a Russian survivor would ever find themself in the American Deep South without functional airplanes and such.
I have mixed feelings on this monument. The parts recommending eugenics is not cool, but some of the messages like living with nature and valuing truth are important. Sadly, it was probably the encouraging of universalism, tempering with reason, and the living with nature that the religious terrorists took issue with.
I can't say I morn the loss of the monument entirely, but the fact a more or less secular monument was destroyed for religious reasons kinda feels haunting. Kinda reminds me of the Taliban destroying the ancient statues of Buddha in Afghanistan.
From what I’ve read on Wikipedia, this monument was poorly thought-out, but very well designed and rather badly executed. No major loss, in that case.
Good riddance for probably wrong reasons. Shame they plan to rebuild this crap. Guidestones for thinly veiled eugenics and genocide, they were. Blergh.
Are they rebuilding them? I live somewhat nearby and last I heard there were no plans to rebuild the stones. Do you have a link to that?
