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Georgia Guidestones - Huge granite stones inscribed with words of advice that the author intended to “guide humanity forward”, destroyed in 2022 (en.wikipedia.org)
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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (42 children)

They didn't seem terribly useful, compared to other long projects.

  • Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature.
  • Guide reproduction wisely – improving fitness and diversity.
  • Unite humanity with a living new language.
  • Rule passion – faith – tradition – and all things with tempered reason.
  • Protect people and nations with fair laws and just courts.
  • Let all nations rule internally resolving external disputes in a world court.
  • Avoid petty laws and useless officials.
  • Balance personal rights with social duties.
  • Prize truth – beauty – love – seeking harmony with the infinite.
  • Be not a cancer on the Earth – Leave room for nature – Leave room for nature.

Basically, a freethinker version of the Ten Commandments tablets.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (40 children)

Openly advocating genocide and eugenics? Yeah, definitely not what I would call useful

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

You could argue the opposite, genocide would be guiding reproduction away from diversity.

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