The Falling and Rising of Monoliths
Out With Goals Etched in Stone; In With the Updatable Monolithic Tablets [Updated, 4-7-2023.]
It was uncanny that just before the Georgia Guidestones fell or were felled, Mark Crispin Miller posted “Is this ‘the Dusk of Man’? NATO ‘leaders’ hypnotized at occult kickoff ceremony (substack.com),”
and I, “Against the Monolith - by David Schmitt (substack.com),”
Technically, I suppose that the Georgia Guidestones monument is not properly called a ‘monolith’, but rather it comprises five upright monoliths with a horizontal tablet as a capstone, thus I suppose one could call it a ‘hexalith’. But who is counting? (I am still trying to determine which language set of instructions were destroyed on which vertical monolith.)
No, I did not have any part in the felling of the Stoned Unhinged sundial outside of Atlanta—nor did, I am sure, Professor Miller. Dr. Miller’s piece presented very nicely what is—in effect—the updated and updatable monolith, a monolith that the world leaders, such as they are, could be briefly “permitted” to drop their masks for in order to offer reverent worship. The writing (and colorful imagery) on the new silicon provides a dynamic, mind-control experience that the modern audience has come to expect. In comparison, those outdated Georgia Guidestones were too reminiscent of those other tablets of the Mount Sinai type with all of those unpleasant hints of divine strictures, especially the odious ones against a more free-style expression of sexual pleasure of the immediate type.
I will spare you the image—superimposed on our national monolith, the Washington Monument—of the Rhode Island political candidate, Tiara Mack twerking for votes upside-down in a bikini. This is a different kind of dynamism of post-Roe, defiant expressionism erecting itself—-but is likely to appear someday, guaranteed, on a hi-def, monitor-lith that is suitable for public adoration by heads of state.
The sound answers needed for our time are generally not eye-catching. I tried to give the readers an intriguing thought—one critic called it “clickbait”—by juxtaposing an empty bookcase with the monolith from the beginning of 2001: A Space Odyssey. Sorry, that is the best I could do at the time and it did take some effort of photographic composition since I do not use stock images. The point is that what we, as a civilization—and as we withdraw from cell phones, action movies, pornography, swooshy backgrounds on nightly news and sports casts—really need will seem like boring stuff. Good stuff, on the other hand, is an acquired—and an ever-reacquired—taste. There is an initial pain as habits are broken and reformed. Advertizers, globohomo politicians, Media cads, sex-sales people and drug dealers do not want people to invest in that sacrifice and effort.
A better world will come if we all can invest more in tough-but-rewarding stuff like books, gret music, fine arts and actively creative projects. Moreover, we all can encourage others to do the same.
By the way, note the flash of light from the nearby flood lamp that occurs simultaneously with the flash associated with the explosion of the stone structure. Note, too, that the flash from the light pole follows a different time course than the slower explosive flash. The former was an inductive, electromagnetic event and the latter was a chemical event with continued duration, that is a longer time constant. The pole light flash may have either been simultaneous with the explosion. This would be the case if the pole light and the destruction of the granite were the consequences of a prior event—-for one example, lightening. Alternatively, the pole lamp may have flashed with ever so slight of a delay subsequent in the order of causality if the cause of the explosion created an electromagnetic pulse that caused the lamp on the pole to flash. This delay would have been that of the time required for the electromagnetic pulse to travel at the speed of light from the location of the explosion to the light pole.