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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Why spend money on a single monument to mankind. The reason why the monuments are so cool is that they were a almost spontaneous part of their culture, they didn't gather around and say you know what would be super cool and just mess up future generations.
Most of the monuments that are out there served a actual purpose. The Great Wall of China was a defense agaisnt invaders, the Pyramids for basically worshipping god kings. The Colussuem to watch Slaves get shredded by Lions.
But they served a purpose and gave us a view into an actual culture.
Making a monument to make a monument really gives no true insight to the why's, and it would be forced.
Plus all of humanity would never agree on it and we'd eventually make the great nuclear pits of Moscow, Bejing and Washington trying to decide on it.
I'd prefer to that future generations look out on a preserved Hoover damn, or Mt Rushmore, head over and see the Tower in Paris, then use their nuclear powered vehicle to see some of the super high rises in Asia.
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Meh, I agree that Hoover Dam would be neat, Mt Rushmore I think is gaudy/tacky today, let alone in thousands of years, but after seeing those I don't know why people would
then want to go see some high rises in Asia. Or did you mean
than?
Anyway, just because the great monuments of the world were built with one purpose in mind in the ancient world, doesn't mean we can't imagine a great monument being built in our time with a different purpose.