I think we will just let the internet… identify, and deal with… these dead enders. They destroyed the third monolith less than 48 hours after it appeared.
The long form streaming video is a cesspool of hatred, xenophobia and mediocre white boy entitlement — I’ll not link it (search google video for Pine Mountain, CA if you want to see for yourself). So I do not feel bad about asking the collected wisdom of Twitter to go find them. And name them.
It is true that they tore down something that hadn’t been given a permit, on public land — but they also place an unpermitted item, on the same public land. It too is now gone. Karma, boys. Here’s a bit — from the local media in town:
…On Wednesday afternoon, the City of Atascadero received reports from hikers of a steel monolith at the top of Pine Mountain in Stadium Park. Overnight, the monolith disappeared. All that remained as of Thursday morning was a hole with rebar sticking out.
Videos of a group of vandals removing the monolith were posted to DLive, a blockchain file-sharing website. The lengthy videos, titled “Monolith Raid,” were posted on Wednesday evening and Thursday morning by a user named CultureWarCriminal. They can be seen here. Viewer discretion is advised.
A report on the video by Vice says “…three men are seen pushing the statue over and chanting ‘America First’ and ‘Christ is King.’ The men, one of whom was wearing a ‘Make America Great Again’ headband, called part of the monolith’s construction ‘gay’ then replaced… the monolith with a wooden cross….”
The cross also was subsequently removed, by other hikers. All in all — I think McCracken’s point has been well made. These kids absolutely are the post-monolith hominids — in the opening sequence of “2001”. Out.
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