American Stonehenge

So I recently learned that in Elbert County, Georgia, USA that there is a monument called the American Stonehenge or the Georgia Guidestones.  Now I don't usually find rocks to be that particularly interesting, however sometimes they do intrigue me. And these are one of them.  

Unlike Stonehenge in the UK (pictured above), the Georgia Guidestones have ten "guides" inscribed in them. And that's not really that weird, since they were contructed in 1979 and unveiled in the 1980's by an unknown person/persons.  These ten rules are:

1. Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature.
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.*

*10 is actually supposed to be repeated twice 

Now all of these rules are written in eight different languages (English, Spanish, Swahili, Hindi, Hebrew, Arabic, Chinese, Russian).  It is made of six granite stones, one in the center, with four around it, and a capstone on top.  (Pictured below)

This was made (apparantly) for the Age of Reason.  Or for the time after an Apocalypse. Truthfully, some of the rules make sense. I mean take #1 for example "Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature".  Right now the world is currently sitting at 7 billion people that we can barely afford to feed. People have large families, and our birth control teaching sucks (another point later on this however).  In the past, the reason why people would have so many children was because most would die during child birth or of the COMMON COLD.  In our time, we have doctors, vaccines, and hospitals allowing people to live longer, and for more people to survive.  The elderly live longer and there are more young people all at one; creating an overpopulation. A way of going against nature, hence why we are at 7 billion people.  So by trying to limit the population would be smart for (and if this ever happened. IF people, I am not saying we are all going to die) the future civilization. 

A point on birthcontrol, and this may just be me. But take the pill for example. It's effective 98% of the time. And thinking about the rate of evolution, at some point the body is going to realize that people are using "hormones" to control the amount of children they have.  And that could be good, if this evolutionary change changed so that people weren't able to have children until they were like.... 25 - 35. And then anyone else couldn't.  But what if (hypothetically, and I'm just crazy like this) the change was that no females could reproduce children.  That this chemical alteration changed the hormones that females gave off and no more people had children. Anyone ever watch Children of Men? Or read the book? Well it's fantastic and I would highly suggest watching it.

I mean, this may never be the case that all females stop reproducing, but it's also crazy to think that some random person wrote ten rules for if the world suddenly ends.  So I don't know.  Mind fuck.  That's what this is.