The Georgia Guidestones: The Elite Have a Laugh

Stuff You Should Know

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🗓️ 13 September 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

In 1980 the “rural as rural can be” town of Elberton, Georgia erected a granite monument with a bizarre set of instructions (commandments?) that touched on eugenics, population control, and living in harmony with nature. Conspiracy theorists went wild.

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0:50.9	Please disregard some previous ones where it was just me and Chuck.
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