There is a foundation trying to raise hundreds of millions of dollars to build a Statue of Responsibility. It would be on the West Coast to balance out the Statue of Liberty, with the two being the same height of 300 feet. It would portray one arm coming out of the ground grasping an arm coming down from the sky and would look like this:
Here is the website of the foundation. I mean, I know what they are saying, that liberty + responsibility = freedom, and they tie into Victor Frankl and man’s search for meaning and all that. But you can’t just create an allegory out of nothing. And though maybe it should be, “responsibility” just doesn’t have the inspirational pizzazz or the patriotic fervor or the tourist appeal of “liberty.”
What are some other monuments that we should have, and what should they look like?
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