The Controversial Monument

I mentioned this the other day, but on the assumption that it will probably be defaced or destroyed, I went and took some photos of it for history's sake. 



The local town is not exactly the right place for such sentiments anymore, although it was rededicated in 1996, which is surprisingly late. These days it's a quite blue town.

A Beatles and Grateful Dead-themed restaurant side-by-side on Main Street.

A typical house with Ukraine flag replacing the American one, anti-Trump/Musk signage, muticultural multicolored sign, and Peace Sign.

Probably the local college kids will just spraypaint it over and over until the county gets tired of having to pay to clean it and arranges for it to be moved. But these days, you never know. The Georgia Guidestones got the dynamite stick, after all. 

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

At first, thought that was my estate lawyer's office on Jackson St., close to the old courthouse.

raven said...

Sure would be interesting to know who and why blew up those guidestones.

Grim said...

Curiously, there was surveillance video of the explosion... but somehow not of the person placing the explosives or their vehicle. At least that's what the Georgia State Police said before they demolished the surviving guidestones 'for safety.'

Korora said...

Would the iconoclasts want THEIR memories judged by the most unworthy of allied causes?

Grim said...

The kids are still young enough not to realize that their memories aren't just 'the way things are.' It takes time to develop a love of what used to be.

Joel Leggett said...

Hopefully, they will leave it alone. It's a memorial to better men than they will ever be.

raven said...

^ Problem is, they can't think. If a thought is outside their box of labels, it is if it does not exist.