Tyler McBrien

Yeah, that repetition.

There was also a tablet on the ground that said, in the middle of it, it said, let these be guidestones to an age of reason.

And then another thing that they had inscribed there was that there is a time capsule buried six feet below the tablet itself.

And it says, interred or buried, and the date was blank.

And then it said to be dug up, and then the date was blank again.

Yeah.

So this has generated like a firestorm of conspiracy theories about where is the time capsule?

Was there ever one?

A lot of the people I spoke to who were there the day of the Guidestones unveiling and helped to build it said that there was no time capsule.

There's been no evidence that has come out about whether or not there's a time capsule.

Yeah, it's varied with the times.

When it first came up, I mean, as you said, it's a very conservative, very Christian, evangelical Christian area of the country.

When they went up in 1980, there's this great archival news clippings from the time where people were skeptical, but kind of had more of like a live and let live attitude than

It was saying that people in town were more interested or more worried about selling beer and porn and gas stations than whatever these guys said.

At first, they had no gate, no surveillance cameras.

It was just part of a cow pasture, and there were these cows pooping on it all the time.

But then it started to get a lot of local attention from local religious leaders saying that these were satanic and preached abortion and genocide because of the population control vibes.

I find myself like, you know, when you read, I don't know, like the Unabomber Manifesto or even sometimes like Osama bin Laden.

Yes, yes.

critiques of American empire.