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Been there, it is legit underwhelming.
Me too. I went there when I was 10 or 11, and as a child all I noticed was how incongruous it was with everything. I wasn't awed by it, and my parents seemed sort of put out with how I didn't care for it compared to my sisters.
I'd like to pretend that's some kind of deep political sentiment, but really I think it's just aesthetically displeasing if you don't have a thing for monuments
Adults get weird when the indoctrinating they and society put so much effort into doesn't take hold. So much so, that they find some mental illness like Autism to label the child with.
This implies autism isn't a real thing and that's pretty off base
I did not imply autism doesn't exist. I implied that kids who don't fall in line with their social programming run the risk of being diagnosed with autism as it's easier then reflecting on where or not the programming is correct.
“Neuro-divergent” seems to be the catch-all today. Though I guess that’s considered on the spectrum too? Anyway, the majority of these cases seem to be “diagnosed” by YouTube parents.
I was diagnosed by an over ambitious child study team member in kindergarten that convinced my mother I had a learning disability. What followed was 13 years of wasted public education because every success proved the program worked and every failure proved the program was necessary.
If it had happened today, I would have been diagnosed with autism and nothing would be better.
What??
Did I studder? If kids don't respond the way adults want them to, they get labeled as being a Problem.
That makes more sense, I just didn't get why you mentioned autism in your first comment. Seems like an odd take to me.
Advertising/Propaganda doesn't work as well on people with Autism. I called it a mental illness because regardless of what flowery language society decides to use to describe neurodivergent people, they will treat them like pariahs.
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What? Speak up.
I dunno, I have a thing for monuments and I still find it aesthetically displeasing. It's pretty ugly.
Same here. If you have no attachment to the figures portrayed, it fails at the kind of gravitas that you'd think an entire mountainside would/should command. It's a strange thing.
I remember one of the massive air compressors they had on display there better than the monument itself...
Though I am a giant nerd for that sort of thing so it might just be me
Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!...... What kind of psi? You said massive, was it mobile? Did it have any mods?..... I need to know!
It was years ago so I don't remember most details, I can't remember anything about pressure, it was stationary, single cylinder, with a flywheel at least 6 feet tall and I don't think it had any modifications made I would have loved to see it running but I don't think it had been ran in at least a 70 years