wonder what would happen if the washing monument were replaced with a giant statue of a womans genetalia instead of the phallus it is now..... would certainly make a political point and say something about the mood and politics of the nation......
it is...... the washington monument is basically a big stone cock sticking out of the ground telling the world "our dicks are bigger than yours" it's a giant stone phallus....
it's fine, 90% of americans have no idea what it is supposed to mean most americans have no idea that washington DC is meant to intimidate people from base design the oval office is shaped that way to fuck with peoples heads.....
some people see phallic symbols in everything, but i really doubt my dick is lying in wait just under my subconscious, waiting for me to build a monument or a building before it artistically expresses itself.
but they meant it to mean that when they built it, the classical architecture is meant to intimidate, we were a small nation trying to impress everyone turns out china is better with it, all those paintings of navies the great white fleet was kinda cool though....
maybe. but it sounds like a bunch of psychological bullshit to me. i just can't picture this guy: "those damn brits keep looking down at me and my prepubescent country. i'd better commission a giant vaguely penis-shaped structure to keep 'em in line."