Georgia Guidestones

A couple of years ago, a neighbor suggested that I should research Georgia Guidestones and Agenda 21. It all sounded sort of conspiratorial, and I never got around to it. Maybe Covid-19 intervened a bit, and perhaps I was not all that interested. It came to mind recently when the news reported that on July 6 someone bombed the Georgia Guidestones. The remainder was torn down.

The Georgia Guidestones was completed in 1980, a granite structure in Elbert County, Georgia with ten guidelines inscribed in eight different languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, Hebrew, Hindi, Russian, Spanish, and Swahili. In English the guidelines were:

• Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature.
• Guide reproduction wisely — improving fitness and diversity.
• Unite humanity with a living new language.
• Rule passion — faith — tradition — and all things with tempered reason.
• Protect people and nations with fair laws and just courts.
• Let all nations rule internally resolving external disputes in a world court.
• Avoid petty laws and useless officials.
• Balance personal rights with social duties.
• Prize truth — beauty — love — seeking harmony with the infinite.
• Be not a cancer on the earth — Leave room for nature — Leave room for nature.

Sort of weird, generally, and especially when combined with the secretive nature of its origin.