Comments on: In Greece, Election Results Push Euro Zone Crisis http://www.rightpundits.com/?p=10225 Mon, 20 May 2013 12:55:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Patrick McCain http://www.rightpundits.com/?p=10225&cpage=1#comment-839016 Patrick McCain Mon, 18 Jun 2012 23:09:02 +0000 http://www.rightpundits.com/?p=10225#comment-839016 Yes Andy is right. And to make my point, note that the Parthenon was built on top of an older Greek temple to Athena. The "history first" nuts would today insist that the original temple be preserved and no Parthenon would have ever been built there. So learning this lesson, what really should happen is build something awesome and useful in it's place, just like Europe use to do when their cultures looked forward. Looking forward is how we got the Sistine Chappel, after all. By the way, the History Firsters are killing our cultural progress here too. Really annoys me that we are using all that prime real estate in Manhattan to build a useless memorial rather than build something grander and better than the World Trade Center. Yes Andy is right. And to make my point, note that the Parthenon was built on top of an older Greek temple to Athena. The “history first” nuts would today insist that the original temple be preserved and no Parthenon would have ever been built there. So learning this lesson, what really should happen is build something awesome and useful in it’s place, just like Europe use to do when their cultures looked forward. Looking forward is how we got the Sistine Chappel, after all.

By the way, the History Firsters are killing our cultural progress here too. Really annoys me that we are using all that prime real estate in Manhattan to build a useless memorial rather than build something grander and better than the World Trade Center.

]]> By: Andy Z http://www.rightpundits.com/?p=10225&cpage=1#comment-838996 Andy Z Mon, 18 Jun 2012 11:34:54 +0000 http://www.rightpundits.com/?p=10225#comment-838996 I'll give this latest Greek election results about three weeks of relative calm. Then its back to Square One. Karin is correct in that Greece needs a long-term plan to crawl its way out of debt. Austerity will only go so far. Reducing regulations, increasing competitiveness and attracting investment capital are the only practical solutions. Patrick does have a good idea in that either restore the Parthenon to its original condition, or build a theme park, a la WESTWORLD. The French are planning a Napoleonic theme park, so why not the Greeks, too? I’ll give this latest Greek election results about three weeks of relative calm. Then its back to Square One. Karin is correct in that Greece needs a long-term plan to crawl its way out of debt. Austerity will only go so far. Reducing regulations, increasing competitiveness and attracting investment capital are the only practical solutions.

Patrick does have a good idea in that either restore the Parthenon to its original condition, or build a theme park, a la WESTWORLD. The French are planning a Napoleonic theme park, so why not the Greeks, too?

]]> By: Andy Z http://www.rightpundits.com/?p=10225&cpage=1#comment-838995 Andy Z Mon, 18 Jun 2012 11:26:50 +0000 http://www.rightpundits.com/?p=10225#comment-838995 The Parthenon was a public 'make-work' project. The Greeks had recently stumbled into a large deposit of silver ore and had more money than they knew what to do with. The Parthenon was a public ‘make-work’ project. The Greeks had recently stumbled into a large deposit of silver ore and had more money than they knew what to do with.

]]> By: Patrick McCain http://www.rightpundits.com/?p=10225&cpage=1#comment-838994 Patrick McCain Mon, 18 Jun 2012 10:11:20 +0000 http://www.rightpundits.com/?p=10225#comment-838994 Far better would be replacing them with something useful that can benefit people more directly. Healthy cultures look forward, not backward. Far better would be replacing them with something useful that can benefit people more directly. Healthy cultures look forward, not backward.

]]> By: buzzbee http://www.rightpundits.com/?p=10225&cpage=1#comment-838990 buzzbee Mon, 18 Jun 2012 05:07:29 +0000 http://www.rightpundits.com/?p=10225#comment-838990 Rebuild the Parthenon? Hey, why not refubish the Coliseum, rebuild the Pyramids and put a new face on the Sphinx while we're at it? Yikes! Rebuild the Parthenon?

Hey, why not refubish the Coliseum, rebuild the Pyramids and put a new face on the Sphinx while we’re at it?

Yikes!

]]> By: Patrick McCain http://www.rightpundits.com/?p=10225&cpage=1#comment-838987 Patrick McCain Mon, 18 Jun 2012 03:35:35 +0000 http://www.rightpundits.com/?p=10225#comment-838987 That picture is a great example of what is wrong with dying liberal cultures like Greece and Italy which look backward instead of forward. In the old days when a public building or church collapsed, they would build one bigger and better. Now they try to build an exact replica because they all worship their past instead of looking forward. In the Parthenon's case they are even more ridiculous, stuck with the version that existed 100 years ago. When any part that is still standing falls, they resurrect only that much, but they will not rebuild the entire thing as it was originally or tear it down and build something better. That picture is a great example of what is wrong with dying liberal cultures like Greece and Italy which look backward instead of forward. In the old days when a public building or church collapsed, they would build one bigger and better. Now they try to build an exact replica because they all worship their past instead of looking forward.

In the Parthenon’s case they are even more ridiculous, stuck with the version that existed 100 years ago. When any part that is still standing falls, they resurrect only that much, but they will not rebuild the entire thing as it was originally or tear it down and build something better.

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