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> Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Riyadh, Bahrain, Qatar, they all remind me of that quote from King of the Hill—they are monuments to man's arrogance. Do you also call Amst
by RcouF1uZ4gsC 3y ago
> Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Riyadh, Bahrain, Qatar, they all remind me of that quote from King of the Hill—they are monuments to man's arrogance.
Do you also call Amsterdam with its dikes and below sea level, “a monument to man’s arrogance?
Wasn’t the moon landing a monument to man’s arrogance?
I think calling something “a monument to man’s arrogance” reveals more about the biases of the person saying it than about the actual thing.
- lupusreal 3y agoWhy do you think either of those aren't?
- RcouF1uZ4gsC 3y agoOf course they are. Every human achievement is in a sense a monument to the arrogance of man. My issue is that when the term is used as a pejorative, it more often used with regards to projects in developing countries.
- avar 3y ago> Do you also call Amsterdam > with its dikes and below sea > level, “a monument to man’s > arrogance? Amsterdam mostly isn't below sea level[1], nor is most of the Netherlands's area that people inhabit. 1. https://www.floodmap.net/elevation/CountryElevationMap/?ct=NL https://www.floodmap.net/elevation/CountryElevationMap/?ct=N...