simonineaston wrote:I have a solution. Just as placcie bags are v. bad on account of their failure to decompose, meaning they end up strangling swans and giving porpoises indigestion, so we need to make statues water-soluble... !! Hoist the hero where all can see - by the time society's values have swiveled away in another direction, said hero has simply melted away - Genius
reohn2 wrote:mercalia wrote:reohn2 wrote:Mercalia
The destroyers of those gravestones and the writers of the scrawled messages are purely racist,that's a given and are no better than Colston himself as such.
I've posted my thoughts on effigies in public places that glorify wo/men unecessarily already so you have my answer.
What do you think?
particular reference?
What do you mean,reference to what?
mercalia wrote:where you indicate your views. not sure what they are
A lot of people are obsessed with a lot of things at the mo. 2 contributary factors - i) the ease with which we can self-publish. Not a moment goes by without an indvidual or a group announcing their manifesto online, with the possibility that it will snow-ball or 'go viral' - the more extreme or unusual, the higher the likelihood it will... and ii) at the back of the minds of most folk active online is the utterly dreadful fear that they may be in on the end-game and that thought quite simply drives all sort of alternative protesting behaviour carried out as what known as displacement activity. Except if your name is Greta Thunberg, whose excellent little mind, is autistic enough for her to be able to focus solely on one particularly thorny issue. Kind-of like Joan d'Arc - let's hope she doesn't suffer the same fate!The statue-topplers are obsessed with white men and white history
Oldjohnw wrote:Probably better if here were no statue at all. Pity anyone thought of them in the first place.
reohn2 wrote:Oldjohnw wrote:Probably better if here were no statue at all. Pity anyone thought of them in the first place.
For me the whole lot of these effigies would be taken down,they only litter up the places where they're erected and most are an eyesore or somewhere for someone on a night out to place a traffic cone on top of anyway.
Bronze would bring a good price in scrap value and the plinth they stood on could be used as a place for street artists to perform,Nelson's phallus aside that is as the performer would be too far away to see and hear.
That reminds me,I wonder which side Nelson did dress on,he was a bit lobsided after a few naval encounters........
or put an observation platform up there ?mercalia wrote:reohn2 wrote:Oldjohnw wrote:Probably better if here were no statue at all. Pity anyone thought of them in the first place.
For me the whole lot of these effigies would be taken down,they only litter up the places where they're erected and most are an eyesore or somewhere for someone on a night out to place a traffic cone on top of anyway.
Bronze would bring a good price in scrap value and the plinth they stood on could be used as a place for street artists to perform,Nelson's phallus aside that is as the performer would be too far away to see and hear.
That reminds me,I wonder which side Nelson did dress on,he was a bit lobsided after a few naval encounters........
would any one miss Nelson? Just keep the column
