tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post3442617103546433956..comments2024-03-28T13:30:35.074+00:00Comments on Bruce Charlton's Notions: What makes iconoclasm evil? A clarificationBruce Charltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-40040651322861802522020-06-27T12:17:47.892+01:002020-06-27T12:17:47.892+01:00The motivation for the current round of iconoclasm...The motivation for the current round of iconoclasm is clearly to destroy the history of the particular country in which it is taking place. The iconoclasts attack certain statues for which some kind of excuse or rationale can be given but really would like to pull down all reminders of the past because it is the past they seek to destroy and reframe as one of oppression by one group of another.<br /><br />The identity of individual statues is not necessarily that important. They are symbolic of the country's sense of itself. It is the country that is being attacked by its enemies.<br /><br />William Wildbloodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13231219533755925897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-35867597734147527292020-06-27T11:30:29.822+01:002020-06-27T11:30:29.822+01:00"The brief glow fell upon a huge sitting figu..."The brief glow fell upon a huge sitting figure, still and solemn as the great stone kings of Argonath. The years had gnawed it, and violent hands had maimed it. Its head was gone, and in its place was set in mockery a round rough-hewn stone, rudely painted by savage hands in the likeness of a grinning face with one large red eye in the midst of its forehead. Upon its knees and mighty chair, and all about the pedestal, were idle scrawls mixed with the foul symbols that the maggot-folk of Mordor used."<br />Iconoclasm is what orcs do, and no, orcish behaviour as described by Tolkien is not at all racist. Orc is a mindset, more and more common in people of all ethnicities.Rangerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12201994446688581703noreply@blogger.com