"We are in the midst of an orgy of vandalism, not by heedless teenagers, but by the American government. The regime’s ideologues claim there is a plan called Project 25. They assure us there is a strategy, but look closer, and it’s vandalism, the unadulterated display of destruction for its own sake, for the sheer pleasure of wielding the chainsaw."
@davidaugust #Ignatieff doesn’t mention the rationale for the Romans’ sacking of Rome that is illustrated in the picture he selected: getting rid of the Jews, whom they had turned into the “others.” They destroyed the Temple and absconded with the menorah — an event memorialized in the Arch of Titus in Rome, upon which this image is based. Prescient, given the othering that’s taking place in the US today.