‘A memorial to humanity’: Washington DC’s monumental first world war sculpture
Howard describes his monumental sculpture featuring 38 figures as “a film in bronze”. It completes the World War I Memorial, which opened near the White House in 2021 – more than a century after the last shot was fired.
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Here's hoping we don't need to build a "memorial to humanity" to acknowledge the fall of American exceptionalism that began with the Reagan administration, amplified by the warp drive of the Trump administration(s) and the crippling Project 2025. If this is allowed to happen I fear we are sunk.
We need to reverse the course of conservatism, return science & history to the forums of education & public knowledge.
@jjGravitas @nursefrombirth American exceptionalism refers to the idea US people have that we're just better at stuff than everyone else and everything here is better.
Which of course is what allows us to sit in a dumpster fire and go "This is fine".