The Seven Wonders of the Totalitarian World

Posted by Willmoore on Nov 25th, 2007
2007
Nov 25

Via Sailer, Esquire has compiled the list. It’s good fun.

Above: Monument to the Founding of the North Korean Workers’ Party. Recurring themes in these autocratic art projects include giant fists and enormous metallic statues of departed despots.

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3 Responses

  1. Mike Says:
    November 25th, 2007 at 10:58 pm

    Stunning night view in the plaza opposite your example (which symbolize industry, agriculture, and the writer’s brush of the intellectual worker) is here:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Juche_Tower.jpg
    It depicts the Dear Leader’s Juche (self-reliance) in monumental form.
    Wow.

  2. love the girls Says:
    November 25th, 2007 at 11:11 pm

    The art nicely reflects totalitarianism in the service of the state.

    While in the West we now have monuments by the deconstructionist school where our own version of totalitarianism is in the service of the flesh.

  3. tripwire Says:
    November 25th, 2007 at 11:26 pm

    Perhaps next they can list the Seven Blunders of the World and right there near the top you can perch a corrupt and ineffectual U.N.

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