Monumentomania: how memorials make war possible | movie | 2024 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

war is possible in a society to which it seems acceptable or natural. war monuments — statues, memorials and architect | dG1fRndNMlZrVmlLWTQ

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00:00Many intuitively understand that such an iconography cannot transmit a call, never a basis.

00:08It literally screams, we can repeat.

00:13Many intuitively understand that military monuments do not remind the population of the horrors of war, but heroize it, make it a norm.

00:24The state monumental policy around the world glorifies war, depicts it as an inevitable and natural part of life,

00:31raising in the people the readiness to take up arms at any moment when the authorities say.

00:36Throughout most of human history, monuments have worked to monumentalize violence,

00:43not just glorifying the invaders, but depicting them as people of peace.

00:47Does this mean that everything can change if we replace the current state, military, patriarchal, bad monumental culture

00:56with a good one that perpetuates the victims and does not glorify the dubious heroes?

01:01Perhaps the problem is deeper, what is a monument?

01:17Thank you for watching!