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The Ampex Sign Is Coming Down (fastcompany.com)
harrymcc writes: If you ever watched anything on videotape, you have Silicon Valley pioneer Ampex -- which invented the technology -- to thank. And for years, the company's vintage sign has stood alongside Highway 101 as a tribute to its historical significance. But Stanford University, which owns the land the sign sits on, is in the process of dismantling it -- an act which Redwood City could have prevented but didn't. I wrote about this dismaying example of cultural shortsightedness at Fast Company.
There are far more important landmarks that have been destroyed. For over a century, many statues in the Southern United States honoured soldiers who served the Confederate States of America in the Civil War and the Confederate leaders. SJWs got butthurt and destroyed part of our American cultural heritage. We lost far more with the destruction of those statues and desecrated memorials to those soldiers, yet people seem okay with it. This is just a damn sign. It pales in comparison to the statues. Who cares?
No, fuck the Hollywood sign. It's an eyesore.
The future should not be held hostage by the past. Otherwise we become Italy.
E Proelio Veritas.
And clearly as you are the Emperor of All the Things, what you give a shit about (or don't) is the final say in what actually happens. All hail the Emperor!
No wait, you are the Emperor of the Square Root of Jack Shit, and nobody cares what you think.
The sign stays.
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