Tyler McBrien

I checked, it's like 664.6.

So they may be onto something there.

Yeah, I think that's definitely part of it.

I think also the granite companies were like, this is some weird shit that we can build that kind of will attract people to the town and show off the artisans of the granite industry.

Because it was a pretty remarkable piece of...

art and craftsmanship.

I mean, they had to, this is 1979, they had to quarry it all.

They had to sandblast 4,000 characters in 10 plus different languages, which they, you know, had to research and figure out how to translate.

And these 10 commandments or precepts, I mean, it's pretty stunning.

And, you know, people are pretty proud.

You talk to people in Alberton and they say, you know, a dad worked on it or a grandpa worked on it or whatever.

Right.

So they're written in a lot of languages, Hebrew, Sanskrit, Russian, Spanish, English, of course.

A lot of them, I'm pulling them up now so I get the exact wording right.

A lot of them are pretty innocuous and just kind of like your standard garden variety, you know,

live in harmony with nature.

But the one that attracted the most negative attention from the get-go is the first one, which is to maintain humanity under 500 million in perpetual balance with nature.

And then the second one, which is guide reproduction wisely, improving fitness and diversity.

Which right there, you already get kind of

a eugenics-y vibe, I think.