This is a huge granite monument in Elbert County, Georgia, USA. It is sometimes referred to as an "American Stonehenge".
The monument has 6 granite stones with a message consisting of ten guidelines or principles in eight different languages, one language on each face of the four large upright stones. Moving clockwise around the structure from due north, these languages are: English, Spanish, Swahili, Hindi, Hebrew, Arabic, Chinese, and Russian.
The message in English reads:
1. Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature. (This is the only one that I have a problem with)
2. Guide reproduction wisely - improving fitness and diversity.
3. Unite humanity with a living new language.
4. Rule passion - faith - tradition - and all things with tempered reason.
5. Protect people and nations with fair laws and just courts.
6. Let all nations rule internally resolving external disputes in a world court.
7. Avoid petty laws and useless officials.
8. Balance personal rights with social duties.
9. Prize truth - beauty - love - seeking harmony with the infinite.
10.Be not a cancer on the earth - Leave room for nature - Leave room for nature.
Unfortunately religious zealots are trying to destroy it.
Check out the Wired Magazine article on the stones
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