Living in their own private Arizona

[pjthompson]

This kind of vandalism makes me sick to my stomach.

This is an embodiment of the whole “if it happened before I was born it doesn’t matter” philosophy. Of the “I’m more important, pay attention to ME!” pride-in-ignorance that a growing number of people in this country seem to have adopted as a personal philosophy.

You know, really, it’s beyond ignorance. It’s a willful destruction of humanity’s collective treasure, tantamount to the Taliban dynamiting the statues of Buddha.

“If I can’t create,” this vandal seems to be saying, “I will destroy what others have created. If I don’t understand, I’ll make sure no one else understands, either.”

Mirrored from Better Than Dead.

Comments

[sollersuk.livejournal.com]

It's bad, but belive me, it could be worse. Last time I went to Stonehenge I was extremely embarrassede by a 19th century graffito by somebody with the surname of my maternal grandfather, from my maternal grandfather's part of the country. Paint won't last for over a century.

[pjthompson.livejournal.com]

The petroglyphs are actually quite fragile. I've heard the BLM people say that the chemicals in the spray paint tend to eat away at them, so in a hundred years they may not be there, either.

[frigg.livejournal.com]

Svineri!

Sorry, couldn't find an English word strong enough for that. Things like this just makes me absolutely furious.

[pjthompson.livejournal.com]

I know. Makes my blood boil.

[geniusofevil.livejournal.com]

assholes

[pjthompson.livejournal.com]

Most definitely.

[marycatelli]

That's one possible reason.

Fatuous self-absorption to the point of narcissism is another -- the idea that he can't do as he pleases being alien to him.

[pjthompson.livejournal.com]

I think that's very likely.

[kmkibble75.livejournal.com]

I blame everyone who's been promoting the idea that the American culture is under attack. I mean, whoever did this may have been a lone dumbass, but I have a feeling someone gave him/her the idea that their own culture is the one true one that deserves to be dominant over all others, no matter how old.

[pjthompson.livejournal.com]

I think you might be right there. It had the feel of "staking a claim."