No, not those colossi, more like the Colossus of Nero. You know, Nero? The one Pliny described as an 'actor-emperor' (scaenici imperatoris) and Suetonius wrote he was 'carried away by a craze for popularity'. The emperor generally associated with tyranny and extravagance? That Nero.
Hmm....
Anyway, I digress, as usual.
What prompted this was a discussion with my friend about the wall Trump wants built separating Mexico from the US to supposedly protect us from terrorists. Whilst the government is in partial shutdown. Leaving us vulnerable by TSA shortages at airports?
Anyhow, my friend and I were discussing the absurdity of 'the wall'.
Can you see where I'm going with this?
(I'm not EVEN going to mention that other wall built by RUSSIA separating an entire country. Russia built it. RUSSIA. Of which Trump has no association with. Russia. *rolls eyes*)
So, my proposition was, which may cost a lot less than a wall, is to construct a giant statue, like an anti-Statue of Lady Liberty, of Trump, and place it facing Mexico on the border, with a severe threatening and defiant grimace (which, besides several that denote blankness, is the only other expression he seems to have) to intimidate terrorists thinking of crossing. Maybe one at the Canadian border as well.
In fact, perhaps even rows of statues, like the Moai of Easter Island (and I won't even go into what happened to the indigenous people there, the Rapa Nui, I'll let you read up about the islands collapse), not just facing Mexico and Canada with different expressions...and hairpieces, but surrounding the entire country, along all borders and coasts.
Ridiculous you say? A waste of time and money? Preposterous?
No more so than a wall.
Hmm....
Anyway, I digress, as usual.
What prompted this was a discussion with my friend about the wall Trump wants built separating Mexico from the US to supposedly protect us from terrorists. Whilst the government is in partial shutdown. Leaving us vulnerable by TSA shortages at airports?
Anyhow, my friend and I were discussing the absurdity of 'the wall'.
Can you see where I'm going with this?
(I'm not EVEN going to mention that other wall built by RUSSIA separating an entire country. Russia built it. RUSSIA. Of which Trump has no association with. Russia. *rolls eyes*)
So, my proposition was, which may cost a lot less than a wall, is to construct a giant statue, like an anti-Statue of Lady Liberty, of Trump, and place it facing Mexico on the border, with a severe threatening and defiant grimace (which, besides several that denote blankness, is the only other expression he seems to have) to intimidate terrorists thinking of crossing. Maybe one at the Canadian border as well.
In fact, perhaps even rows of statues, like the Moai of Easter Island (and I won't even go into what happened to the indigenous people there, the Rapa Nui, I'll let you read up about the islands collapse), not just facing Mexico and Canada with different expressions...and hairpieces, but surrounding the entire country, along all borders and coasts.
Ridiculous you say? A waste of time and money? Preposterous?
No more so than a wall.
'Ozymandias'
Percy Bysshe Shelley
I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”