What's Up With The Monoliths?

There has been a plethora of interesting news today. First off, breakdancing is now an Olympic sport. Secondly, Americans could be receiving the COVID-19 vaccine as early as Friday. Thirdly, the recount in Georgia is officially over and Biden has again been deemed the winner.

But the most interesting headline to me was the discovery of yet another monolith, found on the Isle of Wight, off England's south coast. Now, if you're wondering what a monolith even looks like, the best I can do to explain is that it looks like an art sculpture you'd see at a modern art museum and also like a giant rectangular prism mirror thing. To make it easier on myself, just look at the cover photo for this post.

People have been tracking the mysterious findings of these sculptures ever since a 10-foot-tall silver structure appeared in remote southeastern Utah. However, it quickly disappeared. Imitation structures sprang up in a Romanian forest and a California mountaintop, but both also quickly disappeared. Reports flooded in about another similar structure in the Netherlands this weekend.

We have some idea where the imitations are coming from. A Christian group of men from California took credit for the California structure. In addition, a Santa Fe based art collective, The Most Famous Artist, had advertised a 10-foot structure for sale on its website for $45,000, now marked as sold. CNN has emailed them to see if they were responsible for this latest monolith, but we don't know anything past that. We also don't know who created the original.

I think it's pretty cool. With everything else going on, it's fun to hear about a news story that doesn't involve people or democracy dying. It would almost be better to keep whoever did the original a secret because I think it would be more fun that way.

Source: https://www.cnn.com/style/article/monolith-isle-wight-intl-scli-gbr/index.html

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