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The Word Herder's avatar

Beautiful.

Oh, Fran, tell me how to not hate those who are persecuting me. I am so angry.

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Zippy's avatar

It could be said that our modern very high skyscrapers are symbols of our modern megalithic religion. Indeed they are very much in-your-face manifestations and statements of such.

The former Twin Towers in New York were in-your-face examples of such - not unlike the vertical structures of Stonehenge! The destruction of the Twin Towers was a profound psychic shock to New Yorkers in particular and American's altogether. Prior to that shocking event American's presumed that they were invincible and under control of everything.

Some people say that one way of assessing that any given culture is in terminal decline is when it/they construct mega-scale monuments - look at me/us aren't we great and even the apex of civilization.

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