So I’ve just been listening to the @QanonAnonymous podcast episode on the monoliths, and in it I learn that the California monolith was taken down and smashed up by Nazis.

They livestreamed it, along with themselves calling it racist names (!) and chanting “Christ is King!” as they replaced it with a cross. They also livestreamed themselves running away from somebody who gave chase, whom they took to be Antifa. (Such brave übermenschen.)

The ringleader - ‘Culture War Criminal’ or something - is a bit of everything: part Christian Dominionist, part Stop the Steal, part QAnon, part Nazi. And I’m pissed off. Nazis smashed up a monolith. I hate that. Now… first we need to talk a bit about monoliths.

They seem to be a craze. People are copying someone’s installation art in Utah. Is there some grabbing for tourism going on? Sure. Are they great art? No. Am I a fan? Not particularly. But also... I kindof am. Not of them so much as where they come from.

They represent our desire to play with meaning. Often in daffy, silly, weeby ways. But that’s fine. Even with the weebiness, they represent our desire to imagine the beyond, and be part of it.

It’s no coincidence that they copy (loosely) something from 2001: A Space Odyssey. A film about humans, with all their flaws, transcending. Made by people, with all their flaws, creating a deeply questioning, yearning work of art.

The monoliths popping up across the world now are part craze, prank, part stunt… but they still represent something human that wants to reach for the infinite and eternal. Weebily. But that’s us. And that’s okay. But...

But along come a bunch of sad, spiteful, stupid, hateful bullies, who don’t know how to do anything but sneer at and trample on other people’s dreams or jokes or games.

They took something that, for all its silliness, was something that people imagined, designed, worked on, made, constructed, produced, brought into existence, and placed somewhere. And they destroyed it.

They destroyed something that represented someone’s time and thought and humour or whatever. And they smashed it up like nasty, giggling toddlers.

Fuck these people, and everything they represent. They are destruction for pure spite. Laugh at me for this over-earnest thread. That’s fine. But remember… um... Nazis hate monoliths. The good kind anyway.

Nazis hate monoliths because they’re sad, boring, nasty little dorks. And if we want monoliths in the world - i.e. human creativity, even the weeby type - we need to fucking stop them.