 All right, yep, go ahead, question. All right, so I want to ask a admittedly somewhat vague question. Ayn Rand wrote a chapter in one of her books titled The Monument Builders. And I know that a quote of yours from 2017 has been going around that we shouldn't even have Washington Memorial and all these other monuments. And just a number of thoughts have been rolling around my head about all this. It seems such a muddle how many different bad ideas are mixed in. I mean, for starters, it bothers me that a tiny minority opinion is trouncing a majority opinion in many of these places where the majority of people wouldn't even want these statues taken down. And these people are completely bypassing any democratic process. But Rand made a more general point that we shouldn't even be funding monuments of any sort. They should be privately funded and owned. And also, I guess, made a bold statement really that when you look around the world, it's the authoritarian countries that demonstrate the most lavish monuments typically to their leaders and effectively to themselves. And I wonder if you have comments on all this. Oh, sure. I mean, I have a lot of comments on it. So first, with regard to the quote taken out of context that was dropped on Facebook, where I said there shouldn't even be a Jefferson Memorial or a Lincoln Memorial, I mean, the way it was presented was as if I don't like Jefferson or Lincoln or I think they're equal to the Jefferson Davis or Lee. No, I think it's fantastic that there's a Jefferson Memorial and a Lincoln Memorial and they suddenly deserve those memorials. I just don't think the state should own them. I think they should be privately built and privately funded and privately made. But they certainly are deserving of memorializing and celebrating with sculptures and memorials and street names and whatever we can to remember the giants that they are. But it's not the state's business to build such memorials. And you can see that with the effort to build a FDR Memorial. And what next, an Obama Memorial, a Trump Memorial? I mean, FDR was not a good president. Many Americans who know a little bit of history know that he did a lot of damage to this country and has set us up on a path from which we are suffering today and an economic path, a cultural path, a philosophical path. And yet, why not build him a memorial? He's admired and he's respected by a majority. But this is the problem once the government gets to decide who was a good president and who was a bad president who deserves a memorial, who doesn't deserve a memorial, not a good idea. Now, somebody made the joke of, well, shouldn't there, you mean there won't be paintings inside government buildings? Sure, but they don't have to be paintings of presidents or paintings that pick certain people out and commemorate certain people. Or they can be. You know, I don't really care. But the point was that the government should not get into the business of ideas and projecting ideas to the public. You know, if you want to have paintings of sculpture inside government buildings, so be it. I mean, we as taxpayers should think about that if that is the best use of our tax money is to make buildings that the government, I mean, generally, I don't like the fact that government buildings are big, ostentatious, expensive, and looking down, they're always on a hill. They're always in some cities, they're not allowed to build taller than the state capital or whatever. I mean, that gives government a kind of imposing status of a king and an authoritarian that I think is inappropriate. I mean, what I talked about in the monument builders and I haven't read it in a long time is she noted the authoritarians always build monuments to themselves to their rule, whether it's the pyramids, which is what the pharaohs built to themselves. Or you just think about Hitler's grand architectural plans for Germany and Berlin. And the states, you know, there's definitely Nazi art. If you think about communist art, I mean art promoted by the state to glorify the state, to glorify the agenda of the state. I'm against all of that. So, but part of the monuments they build, and this goes to FDR. Are not literally monuments. Part of the monuments they build are social programs. FDR's monuments, though we have, is basically the regulatory state, social security, Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, you know, the federal home loan, federal home loan board, I think it's the board. HUD, I mean, the whole institutionalization of the regulating finance is a legacy, a monument of FDRs, the welfare state is a monument of FDR, so security is a monument in FDR. And the same with Johnson. I mean, Johnson will be remembered for Medicare, Medicaid, and the war on poverty. Nixon's monuments are the war on drugs and the environmental regulations, the EPA, and people don't know this, but almost all the environmental regulations that we have today were at least instituted originally under Nixon and then expanded under other presidents. So, it's not just physical monuments, it's the glorification of the state and the glorification of themselves that leaders are involved in and it's at whose expense. It's the expense of all of us, always. Monetary expense, life, going to war for the state, so literally life, the glorification, all of it involves our money, our time, our lives, our freedom. So I'm against it, but nothing I said should diminish the greatness and grandeur of Lincoln and Jefferson. I love the Jefferson Memorial, I love the quotes, I love that. Yeah, the beautiful Washington Monument. Yeah, well, I hate the Washington Monument. No, I think the Washington Monument is a disgrace. It is one of the ugliest things I've ever seen. It is a tribute to Egyptian culture. Why Washington would, why you would have a monument to one of the greatest man of history that is a obelisk, an Egyptian form instead of a real sculpture, like, you know, Daniel just a French, if I'm not mistaken, sculpted the Jefferson Memorial, one of the great, maybe the greatest American sculptor of all time, Washington doesn't deserve that. And by the way, there's a great story about the Washington Monument. You know, the Washington Monument, Congress decided to build the Washington Monument and allocated funds to build it. I think it took them 40 years to build it. They ran out of money and construction wasn't that good. It was just a disaster from day one. Took them forever to build it. Give you a count example to that, is the Statue of Liberty. The Statue of Liberty was a gift from France, but it was not built with public money. It was built with private money. Private money was raised in order to assemble it in New York. It was assembled in something like three months. It was super fast, super quick. And it is, in many regards, it is a private monument because it was funded privately. So I think that is the contrast. I, you know, Washington Monument's a disgrace and a sad, sad that that is what the government, Congress chose to use to commemorate, you know, President Washington. That's a great contrast. What we need today, what I call the new intellectual would be any man or woman who is willing to think. 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