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Colin Danby

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... also the "of their times" argument fails because monuments are *by their nature* temporally displaced, put up later, often much later after whatever is memorialized, to rework the past for the purposes of whoever has the power and wealth to put large objects in public places.

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Agreed! The "of their times" argument always falls apart completely on closer examination.

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