Comments on: The Georgia Guidestones http://blog.longnow.org/2009/04/29/the-georgia-guidestones/ The Official Weblog of The Long Now Foundation and Friends Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:43:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Hezekiah Wyman » Blog Archive » A Manual for Civilization by Alexander Rose http://blog.longnow.org/2009/04/29/the-georgia-guidestones/comment-page-1/#comment-18857 Hezekiah Wyman » Blog Archive » A Manual for Civilization by Alexander Rose Wed, 14 Apr 2010 22:44:27 +0000 http://blog.longnow.org/2009/04/29/the-georgia-guidestones/#comment-18857 [...] Georgia Guidestones: The four granite Guidestones are covered in inscriptions written in 8 major languages that describe the tenets of their imagined Age of Reason. [...] [...] Georgia Guidestones: The four granite Guidestones are covered in inscriptions written in 8 major languages that describe the tenets of their imagined Age of Reason. [...]

]]> By: Manual for Civilization - The Long Now Blog http://blog.longnow.org/2009/04/29/the-georgia-guidestones/comment-page-1/#comment-18680 Manual for Civilization - The Long Now Blog Tue, 06 Apr 2010 11:11:31 +0000 http://blog.longnow.org/2009/04/29/the-georgia-guidestones/#comment-18680 [...] Georgia Guidestones: The four granite Guidestones are covered in inscriptions written in 8 major languages that describe the tenets of their imagined Age of Reason. [...] [...] Georgia Guidestones: The four granite Guidestones are covered in inscriptions written in 8 major languages that describe the tenets of their imagined Age of Reason. [...]

]]> By: Ivan Yanasak http://blog.longnow.org/2009/04/29/the-georgia-guidestones/comment-page-1/#comment-6908 Ivan Yanasak Fri, 01 May 2009 11:59:15 +0000 http://blog.longnow.org/2009/04/29/the-georgia-guidestones/#comment-6908 Having been out to the Guidestones once or twice quite some time ago, I always wondered how they managed to stay unmolested for so long. They are truly out in a field, off of a quite rural road, umpteen miles outside of nowhere. (Elberton itself isn't exactly a booming metropolis.) Unfortunately, it appears that the location (which likely protected it somewhat from casual vandalism) is now a liability (due to recent "social and political unrest" in the surrounding population). As mentioned above, outside of what little is written on the stones themselves (and the small stone sign beside it), there's not much else known about the group that created the Guidestones. This recent episode does make one ponder the ramifications for any long-term monument: wear and tear due to normal operation and natural forces are somewhat easy to anticipate, but damage done by people (whether active as with vandalism or passive as with neglect) can be much harder to predict (since among other things this damage is related to how the "message" - real or imagined - of the monument is viewed in the context of the society at the time). Having been out to the Guidestones once or twice quite some time ago, I always wondered how they managed to stay unmolested for so long. They are truly out in a field, off of a quite rural road, umpteen miles outside of nowhere. (Elberton itself isn’t exactly a booming metropolis.) Unfortunately, it appears that the location (which likely protected it somewhat from casual vandalism) is now a liability (due to recent “social and political unrest” in the surrounding population).

As mentioned above, outside of what little is written on the stones themselves (and the small stone sign beside it), there’s not much else known about the group that created the Guidestones. This recent episode does make one ponder the ramifications for any long-term monument: wear and tear due to normal operation and natural forces are somewhat easy to anticipate, but damage done by people (whether active as with vandalism or passive as with neglect) can be much harder to predict (since among other things this damage is related to how the “message” – real or imagined – of the monument is viewed in the context of the society at the time).

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