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.