Taliban, the anti-war and anti-establishmnet protestors of the sixities, today’s far left, post-war Italy and Germany were times when statues paid the price, and today’s anti-statue movement is one of the bigger wars of culture ever declared.
So-called activism or the showing and performing of your political or identity point of view is what today’s demonstrations do better than at any other times.
Remember when “Fearless Girl” became such a thing? It was constantly in the news here in New York, and, still gets reported on – we are now awaiting word of the statues’s fate – if, in fact, it will be moved. Such importance given to carved renditions of folks. It’s as if we live virtually and never have contact, only using things for what they do for us. It’s just the modern digital capitalism’s version of things, including extreme individuation in an atmosphere of Section 430 on top of complete freedom of speech, which, when, everything is permitted, nothing is true, and not the popular or art theory that it’s all fiction, and, uh, i hate to say it, individual “narratives.”
Only unity creates or forces change.
Got off topic, there, but please use your head and have a sense of openess like Mary Beard has.