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Charlie, I agree with you about MLK and everyone else deserving better. Much of the public sculpture these days ranges from the truly hideous such as the thing in Boston to at best the trivially decorative. There probably are various reasons for that, but I would guess the emperor’s new clothes hypothesis explains a lot of it. I assume this monstrosity was paid for by money extorted from the taxpaying citizens of Boston. One has to feel sorry for them. At least when individuals spring for this sort of thing, it only a case of a voluntary separation of rich fools from their money.

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