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It's enlightening to contemplate the impact of such a thing, all the way out to the song "Holiday in Cambodia." Imagine seeing a tree with a plaque on it stati
by at_a_remove 6y ago
It's enlightening to contemplate the impact of such a thing, all the way out to the song "Holiday in Cambodia." Imagine seeing a tree with a plaque on it stating that this was the place where they used to smash infants' heads against the trunk. They were always just one murder away from achieving perfection, and in light of such a goal, what is a single life?
I was recently remarking to someone on their Year Zero, their willful destruction of all that had gone before. Certainly we have seen it with ISIS and Mao encouraged it for that revolution, but this was much more thorough. Pagodas were turned into warehouses and statues were of course destroyed. It certainly seem to be a common thread in communist revolutions: all that has gone before must be destroyed.
Now I am going to see if I cannot find Spalding Gray's Swimming to Cambodia.
- kikokikokiko 6y agoHistory is a series of bad remakes that should never have been made. The US seem to be going on a very good direction, toppling Washington and Jefferson's statues lately.
- ipnon 6y agoI take the Spike Lee approach, if people are going to violently vent their anger its better they destroy some object than end someones life. We can always make another statue.
- virtuous_signal 6y agoI'm not really sure anger or violence works that way. Some would say that tolerating violence leads to more, or more severe violence. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_windows_theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_windows_theory
- foolinaround 6y agosoon, toppling that statue won't be enough. They will move on to the next atrocity...
- at_a_remove 6y agoIt did not stop with the statues in Year Zero. (Hint: it never stops with the statues.)