“It has taken us centuries of thought and mockery to shake the medieval system; thought and mockery here and now are required to prevent the mechanists [technocrats] from building another.”

Dora Russell,* The Right to Be Happy (1927), preface. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mockery (*see sidebar)

Friday, September 23, 2022

Great Walls of Past and Present !!!

Past1Aesthetics:
Great Wall of China (BC & AD)
(Image Source info in footnote 1)
Present2 Aesthetics:
Great Wall of the USians (as of 2022 AD)
(Copyright info and fair use claim in footnote 2)
Border wall built with shipping containers near Yuma complete; here’s what it looks like | By AZFamily Digital News Staff and David Caltabiano | Published: Aug. 24, 2022
For actual video go to https://www.azfamily.com/2022/08/24/gov-ducey-says-border-wall-gaps-near-yuma-now-filled-with-shipping-containers/
Additional wiki facts for comparison:
China: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Wall_of_China
Mexico-U.S.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico-United_States_barrier
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico%E2%80%93United_States_barrier
Note: assumptions that the Great Wall of China was built by slave or unpaid labor is neither proven nor disproven yet by evidence. The same applies to the possession of diverse, (unknown?) technologies used by the ancients to accomplish what appears to be architectural wonders.

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1. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Great_Wall_of_China_at_Jinshanling.jpg
File URL: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6f/The_Great_Wall_of_China_at_Jinshanling.jpg
Attribution: Severin.stalder, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Description: English: The Great Wall of China at Jinshanling
Date: 8 June 2013
Author: Severin.stalder
Permission: This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported

2. From https://www.azfamily.com/2022/08/24/gov-ducey-says-border-wall-gaps-near-yuma-now-filled-with-shipping-containers/
Copyright 2022 KTVK/KPHO. All rights reserved. But Fair Use of photo claimed re: 1) comparative criticism; 2) commentary on modern aesthetics; 3) news reporting about the US-M Border Wall; and 4) teaching / instructing about exercising greater discernment of claimed lineal progression and advancement of science architecture, and culture. Textual story and news link are provided to encourage access to a larger portion of the copyrighted material.