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Slack.com slash DHQ. New York City has just erected a Golden Demon

statue on top of the courthouse near Madison Square Park. And when I say a Golden Demon

statue, I'm not being hyperbolic or funny. It is a gold statue of a demon woman with horns

on her head and weird tentacle things for arms dedicated to Ruth Bader Ginsburg and specifically

to Ginsburg's support for abortion. The artist who made it told The New York Times that

the statue is part of a, quote, urgent and necessary cultural reckoning underway as New

York reconsidered traditional representations of power in public spaces and recast civic

structures to better reflect 21st century more aides. You see, in Old New York, we placed

on top of our courthouses stone and marble statues of famous law givers, allegories such

as Lady Justice. Because our old social mores reflected reverence for things like law and

justice. Today, we erect Golden Demon idols to the human sacrifice of little babies. Because

our social mores reflect reverence for things such as hedonism and selfishness. The lips

and the artists see this as a wonderful thing. The horns on the beast are, according to

the reports, meant to symbolize autonomy and sovereignty, nice, and off-sounding values,

and at least until you think about what they really mean. But that is how it always goes.

I am sure that the ancient Canaanites thought themselves perfectly justified in worshipping

Baal. I have no doubt that the ancient Assyrians thought that it was a wonderful, fine thing

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