Could be done. Probably needs to be a simulator.

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jKeIZMqgypyphIk.htmlsi=7w8CHkDbnb0mZA3I Lewis Garrison’s channel does that sort of thing

@@spaceengineeringempire4086not even that ,just generate it with Mid journey or any other AI video and image generators.

Love the channel as well but “makes me believe in humanity a bit more” I think that is a silly notion human nature is inherently flawed and corrupted

Is this lemminos voice

I feel the same way

HUZZAAAAHHHHH, GOOD SIRRRRRRR! WELLL SAAAIIIID!!!!

Meanwhile the current monument: some devil statue in the new york courthouse

Agreed, every video is so endlessly fascinating and of such high quality no less

How much work goes into a video about things that were never built ?

idk seems like something most Western countries could've thought of before WW2.

​@@johnperic6860I agree with this statement more. This was before Columbine and all the mass shootings in the U.S. Most Americans STILL love guns even after that, so it doesn't seem odd at all that Americans in 192x thought a rifle range for slain soldiers was acceptable

sounds like a great idea

I don't see why it would be insane. Hell, many veterans today use recreational shooting as a form of therapy.

No, build it on native American land and let them benefit from it. Right next to one of their tax free gambling casinos !

It's a statue of a genocidal land thief (ethnoterritorialist). It's like putting up a statue of Hitler because Germans became a minority.

@@davidkamenits all their land

@@toadguy7689 I didn’t know Native Americans were one big giant tribe….

It looks too good to be approved today. Too solid, too specifically beautiful. Everything today has to be some kind of abstract nonsense that means nothing unless you read the tiny plaque under it.

That's a good idea for him to do. Can't wait for that and also Richmond Virginia

He should really make a big series out of this w other cities like Chicago, London, Portland and others

I don't know off the top of my head, but there's definitely potential to make more videos like this in the future!

@@kingsandthings Thanks for the response. I think culturally and historically (though not economically), Boston is the second most significant city in the US. It would be very interesting if you make a video like this one, on Boston!

❤❤❤Boston❤❤❤

i've been there. It's VERY emotional and sobering.

Robert Moses would like the quote “in order to create, one must first destroy”, but liked the latter a bit too much

And we have so much garbage named after him. What a petty beaurocrat.

Hmm. Well ... he's often reviled. But he was hardly the only one to think in these terms from that era. I'm in favor of conservation except where it truly is impossible. However, modernity has always demanded more efficient cities and scale. Some of those old modernist architects and urban planners had better ideas for how to achieve that than others. Moses, to me, was mediocre. One thing people often miss about this history is that a fair bit of the more awful and ugly modern "butchering" of the urban fabric from that era was guided more by politicians and others who did not place enough emphasis on aesthetics. Jane Jacobs, the great savior of the small city street, was really just a conservative. She didn't ever really consider the possibility that a modernist city, if done well, could be spectacular. The human-scale urban environment has become fetishized. But if you lived in any of the ancient civilizations - say Rome - the most impressive architecture was designed to make you feel small - just as some great modernist architecture does.

@@RobespierreThePoof The human scale environment is valued because people are humans. The modernist city is for the achitects, not the the people. That's a ridiculous view of Jane Jacobs, or at least one that robs the term "conservative" of any moral value. Urban destruction was the status quo, and she fought against it. The issue with modernist architecture is the minimalist geometric fundementalism, not that it makes people feel small.

The "racist" bridges guy

I went there with my family about 12 or 13 years ago. It looks identical today as it did then. They sell it as "the red man's mount rushmore", but it's nothing more than a tourist trap to fill the pockets of one family.

All of Mount Rushmore could fit in the face though. It's disappointing they aren't making progress.

I actually looked this up after commenting and the face was just finished in 98, with work still being actively done on the rest. It was supposed to take less than ten years but weather conditions on the mountain make it so they can only work a few months of the year and there's way, way, more iron content and fissures in the rocks then projected. They still work on it with the tourism money though, and it's all done with explosives 🧨 so there's financial incentive for them to keep at it. (They can only work on it when weather is good, and that's when the tourists are going to be there to see the big booms.) They say that by the year 2035 the arm, hairline, hand, shoulder and the top part of the horse's head will be finished - but they keep having to deviate from the original plan because of problems with the rock, so I'd say it's more reasonable they will get his pointing finger done by then. It's reasonable to see how slow its going and think it's not going at all, but as long as the crash keeps flowing and they can use the dynamite carving as a way to encourage tourism it's on track to be done long after we are all dead. I'd guess 2560. But I'm an eternal optimist, lol

As far as rock-cut monumental sculpture goes, it's not bad. A little obvious in it's politics, perhaps. Maybe a touch too much. But ... well ... Does anyone blame them? I do wish the state of South Dakota would just jump in and fund the project to get it completed already. They want it to be funded by popular donations and that sounds great on paper, but at a certain point you do have to be practical when trying to finish such a grand project. And obviously South Dakota would stand to benefit from its completion in tourism revenue so they could thank the Sioux/Dakota people in advance.

The reason why it was never completed is the tribe refuses to accept federal funding. They will not take money from the government.

Just no connection to North American natives

I'm curious .. why were they demolished? South America is the one continent that I've never really spent time getting to know.

@@RobespierreThePoof Argentina 100 years ago was one of the richest countries on earth and Buenos Aires was held to the same standard as Paris. Over those 100 years, there have been several economic highs and several economic lows. This lead to a large amount of the classical buildings being demolished and replaced with higher capacity buildings (especially in the 60’s) or several ornate buildings having parts of their facade removed since it was expensive to maintain. Over the past couple of years, however, there have been several efforts to restore some of the stripped buildings to their former glory and you can still find beautiful pieces of architecture in Buenos Aires and other cities across Argentina.

@@RobespierreThePoof and if you want to learn a bit more about Buenos Aires I recommend checking out the neighborhoods of Retiro, Recoleta, Monserrat, Bajo San Isidro, Tigre, San Telmo, and La Boca on google or google earth.

​@@Lontonce_how's Argentina doing in 2023?

@@zivmontenegro8303 like shit 1999 1 Argentinian Peso was worth 1 US dollar. Beginning of 2023 1 US dollar was worth 400 pesos. November 29 2023 1 US dollar is worth 800. Besides this, political corruption, assassination, and fraud have all been regular headlines. All thanks to Peronist and Kitchenerist. However, there’s hope now since in a couple months it’ll be the elections and currently it looks like either one of the two “good” candidates (Patrica Bullrich or Javier Milei) are going to win (preferably Bullrich but most likely Milei). Still, my country is beautiful and no matter how many rough patches we go through, that won’t ever change.

The problem was that it was built like a monument to a people that no longer live there, this is a problem with a lot of indian representation like with indian football names. Like, they are still here.

You know they are many ethnic groups with vastly different cultures

No

Yeah, but then again if I was driven out of my home only for my pursuers to make a statue of me in their style, I’d also find it a little self-righteous, so I see where the opposition is coming from.

I looked it up and apparently it has something to do with a desire to connect America with the oldest great civilizations and express an intention of making a similar eternal mark on history. Which makes sense since Egypt is far far older than christianity or the Roman Empire. Still, the amount of focus on Egypt is surprising, compared to in the modern day when people hardly bring up Egypt at all except in the context a few movie franchises.

Masonry

look up the iconography of free- masonry and you will find that especially Washington DC is full of it...and where do you think the eye in the pyramid on your bank notes comes from?

This, but Fi Di for me

same for Chicago except I don't hate living here, it's just frustrating sometimes 😂

Damn, same thing in Buenos Aires The chaos compliments the beauty

Let’s swap! I live in Edinburgh, Scotland. Gorgeous, ancient architecture but pretty boring city!

@@leeriches8841 accepted!

Isn't the cost fairly high already? There might be other revenue streams. But yes, conservation is key.

Hate to break it to you but the general public has NEVER been allowed into the torch and due to the structural integrity of the statue they probably won’t.

The arm's had a design flaw since the day it was assembled. According to everything I've read a full fix would require removing the entire arm and repositioning it.

The statue itself yes, but the pedestal was built by the US

Ja det är Lemmino

It's a statue of a genocidal land thief (ethnoterritorialist). It's like putting up a statue of Hitler because Germans became a minority.

Yeah that’s what I thought as I’ve gotten older it’s a nice idea but a museum is a better resource for us to learn about many tribal cultures and traditions of the Americas which are still here.

.... its better than the other ideas. But it's politics and style are a weird mismatch. And those racial politics are VERY much of that era. It would be the subject of heavy criticism in the contemporary era - and probably discussed routinely in American history classrooms as a key example of how screwy our old ideas about Native Americans really were. And rightly so. But on purely aesthetic grounds ... its better than the others mentioned here and a fair chunk of the monuments that did get built in that era.

Why?

Explain

Good. To hell with those masonic scumbags

Maybe, but that's in part because of the Beaux-Arts era and Colonial Revival surrounding monuments of that nature in the decades since. They wanted a monument, not a demonstration of the civic religion. As Gothic Revival is vastly better than the two styles it would have been spectacular.

@@lmvr127 I can't see men from the Enlightenment who wrote an independence declaration full of Enlightenment ideals for a country thousands of miles away from Europe identify with gothic architecture. Bu maybe that's just me.

Don't care

>>> that's *"Bering Strait"*

We have a Woke Sickness in NYC. You’re correct!

@@lisaroberts8556 They've been tearing things down since the 1950s, maybe even earlier. Look what they did to the former Penn Station back in 1962. Stupidity goes WAY beyond Woke.

​@@Poisson4147 Harvard tore down the New York ritz hotel in midtown a month after they purchased it.

You mean the twin towers 2?

@@jtgd Electric boogaloo?

The Twin Towers? Their construction required the demolition of an entire neighborhood in Manhattan, and replaced the old Hudson Terminal with a much less-grander PATH station, plus their ugly design was only saved because they were two of them.

Who are "they"?

I thought this as well. After looking at many of the 'before and after 'photos and drawings/paintings/renderings etc. and then comparing to old maps, one can see a lot that was once there and has since been 'unbuilt'.

And you have documented proof that these buildings actually existed? Wow. Tens of millions of people have lived in NYC and not ONE of them ever noticed any of these buildings? Somebody must have used one hell of an MIB Neuralizer!

Indeed

It’s actually Indian-American. American Indian and Native American are used interchangeably.

The Roman’s conquered Gaul and celebrated it did they not?

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