Ask Daily Stoic: Ryan and E.S. Schubert Talk the Purpose of Monuments and Why Statues Matter
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🗓️ 1 July 2020
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
In today’s episode, Ryan and sculptor E.S. Schubert discuss the purpose of monumental statues and the complex issues surrounding who society venerates and why.
E.S. Schubert is a sculptor based in Kansas City. He has designed and sculpted monumental statues for cities, sports teams, and Hall of Famous Missourians. Schubert has also crafted busts for Daily Stoic featuring famous Stoic figures.
Get Daily Stoic’s busts of Marcus Aurelius (https://store.dailystoic.com/products/marcus-aurelius-bust) and Seneca (https://store.dailystoic.com/products/seneca-bust), designed and built by E.S. Schubert.
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| 0:22.2 | Each one of these passages is based on the 2000-year-old philosophy that has guided some of history's greatest men and women. For more, you can visit us at DailyStoke.com. |
| 0:34.2 | Hello, I'm Hannah and I'm Seruti and we are the hosts of a Redhanded, a weekly True Crime Podcast. |
| 0:40.2 | Every week on Redhanded, we get stuck into the most talked about cases. |
| 0:43.2 | From the Idaho student killings, the Delphi murders and our recent rundown of the Murdoch saga. |
| 0:49.2 | Last year, we also started a second weekly show, Shorthand, which is just an excuse for us to talk about anything we find interesting because it's our show and we can do what we like. |
| 0:57.2 | We've covered the death of Princess Diana, an unholy Quran written in Saddam Hussein's blood, the gruesome history of European witch hunting, and the very uncomfortable phenomenon of genetic sexual attraction. |
| 1:07.2 | Whatever the case, we want to know what pushes people to the extremes of human behaviour. |
| 1:12.2 | Like, can someone give consent to be cannibalized? What drives a child to kill? And what's the psychology of a terrorist? |
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| 1:43.2 | It's started off promising. Or is this all just about Elon? |
| 1:50.2 | He's essentially mad that his tweets aren't performing as well as he would expect them to. |
| 1:57.2 | But really just felt like, okay, this really is just a platform being ruled by a dictator who does things on his own whim. |
| 2:04.2 | And what will be left of Twitter by the time he's done? |
| 2:07.2 | Basically, my entire team was gone. By the end of it, infrastructure was just completely gutted. He'll like tweet a thing, and then everyone's like, we got a word on that now, because he tweeted it. |
| 2:16.2 | I'm supposed to believe this man is a genius. |
| 2:18.2 | It just felt like everything was kind of descending into chaos. |
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| 2:30.2 | Hey, it's Ryan. I wanted to add on to the conversation we've been having about monuments, Confederate monuments, about justice in this world. |
| 2:41.2 | And just, you know, I've gotten a lot of emails and questions from people about, you know, for taking down Confederate monuments, should we pull down statues of Marcus Relius or Seneca, because they own slaves. |
| 2:53.2 | And at my first reaction was a rejection of the sort of what aboutism of that. But then I thought I'd engage in it. |
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