Tear All of the Statues Down

Tony Peak
4 min readJul 7, 2020

A society’s values can be ascertained through its art. The beliefs of its citizenry, the ideals it wishes to teach its children and leave as a reminder for future generations. Art is self-expression and mirror, question and answer. Statues are an important part of that.

They are not history.

One of humanity’s most common expressions is to erect figures of its gods. From the crude mother…

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Tony Peak

Science Fiction & Fantasy author, member of SFWA, HWA, & Planetary Society; represented by Ethan Ellenberg