01-30-2025, 06:14 AM
I admit this skirts between news and history but I thought it was interesting.
https://apnews.com/amid-furor-over-monum...c867c5b89e
"WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has a vision for his second term, if he wins one, of establishing a “National Garden of American Heroes” that will pay tribute to some of the most prominent figures in U.S. history, a collection of “the greatest Americans to ever live.”
While it mentions an initial list it seems the proposed list so far is here
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_G...ed_statues
I'm not against the Garden in itself. I'm not iconoclastic enough for that. I do however feel there's a lot of proposals so far and some I feel are politically biased or too much recency bias (no offense to Justice Scalia who for me fits both). I also feel that while it's great to have a diversity of people who accomplished great things in multiple fields I think this list needs to be narrowed down and give more of a focus I guess? I feel if President Trump is going to have this built it needs to look to sites like France's Pantheon to get a good idea of how to select people and design it in a way where it feels special and that any person placed there has an undoubtably good reason to be there. I also have to wonder about location. It seems kind of pointless to place this in Washington DC when many of the people likely to be inducted immediately already have monuments.
https://apnews.com/amid-furor-over-monum...c867c5b89e
"WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has a vision for his second term, if he wins one, of establishing a “National Garden of American Heroes” that will pay tribute to some of the most prominent figures in U.S. history, a collection of “the greatest Americans to ever live.”
While it mentions an initial list it seems the proposed list so far is here
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_G...ed_statues
I'm not against the Garden in itself. I'm not iconoclastic enough for that. I do however feel there's a lot of proposals so far and some I feel are politically biased or too much recency bias (no offense to Justice Scalia who for me fits both). I also feel that while it's great to have a diversity of people who accomplished great things in multiple fields I think this list needs to be narrowed down and give more of a focus I guess? I feel if President Trump is going to have this built it needs to look to sites like France's Pantheon to get a good idea of how to select people and design it in a way where it feels special and that any person placed there has an undoubtably good reason to be there. I also have to wonder about location. It seems kind of pointless to place this in Washington DC when many of the people likely to be inducted immediately already have monuments.
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