We ought to reconstruct the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World

No, no. You've got it all wrong. If the seven wonders of the world are built somewhere else from where they originally were, the whole thing is ruined. It's won't even be the same artifact, it'll just be a cheap replica. Really, why even put in the effort? Modern architecture is just as good. We've put out some stunning architecture. Look at the Burj Khalifa. Do you think the Romans could have built that? Hell no. The pyramids aren't even that tall. I mean, you say we should restore the pyramids? They're mostly intact. First, it seemed like you really wanted to reconstruct these things. Now it just seems like you want to build them all here in the United States, which would ruin everything about them. They're not a part of American culture, they're a part of Roman or Grecian culture, and it would be a grave injustice to build them in a spot where they're not even appreciated by the people who originally built them. You're not talking about restoring the real wonders, you're talking about a corny theme park where they can be gawked at like monkeys in a zoo. While rebuilding these things is unnecessary, putting them in the wrong place is an even more grave injustice. Of course the United States is the best place to build them, we're a first world country, but that just shows what jerks we Americans are, to assimilate their culture into ours. I mean, it's the Lighthouse of ALEXANDRIA, not the lighthouse of NEW YORK. We should at least construct them in their proper places, or there's no point to making them again. And you're comparing the Lincoln memorial to the statue of Zeus? One is of a guy with a beard, the other is of an all powerful deity. You can't pass up the statue of Zeus just because we have the Lincoln Memorial. I mean, why would we build a statue of Zeus here in America? We don't worship him. Hell, even modern Greeks don't worship him. He's a god from another time, and he's been replaced by Christianity. Really, that's like building a bunch of Scientology temples here. It just isn't necessary. Furthermore, many of the ancient wonders were built for purposes that are now outdated. As I said, we don't worship Zeus anymore, so building a temple of him is worthless. The hanging gardens were built to add beauty to a lifeless desert, but today we have much better irrigation techniques. The Lighthouse of Alexandria was built to help ships at sea, but today, even our flashlights can shine for miles. The things are outdated, so if they were rebuilt, they couldn't be put to practical use, they'd just be put in a museum of relics. And that's a waste of time, effort, and materials. In addition, many of them use technology which we can't figure out. We don't know how the lighthouse was built, we don't know how the hanging gardens raised water vertically, and we don't know what Zeus was made out of. Building a completely accurate model of these things would be like painting the face of God. We just don't know that much about them. The Greeks and Romans were very smart with their aqueducts and lyres, true, but much of their knowledge has been lost to the ages. You claim that it will help unemployment in Greece. OK, but do the Greeks really want to build a corny theme park that makes a mockery of their heritage just so the American tourists can visit it? Really, I'm sure there are much more practical ways to solve Greece's economic crisis that aren't degrading. There should be more real jobs, not just jobs at a crazy novelty theme park. They have to work and polish the Colossus of Rhodes for us. that's like asking some Native Americans to pick up all the rocks from their land so we can plow over it with cement. Just horrible. You say it will help people be more aware about the past of humanity. I have to ask, can't you study these things if you wanted to devote your life to them? They're not that obscure, we have pictures of them, and I'm sure many people have tried to write and talk about them. We don't need to make all of them again. Ancient Rome is never going to be revived, so why try to rebuild a vanished dream? Part of the fun of these things is their mystery, and the treasures that could lurk within them. If we build real ones, it will ruin everything about them. Also, do we have to reconstruct history just to make people aware of history? Shouldn't we focus more on just having them learn it? Do we have to make it fun, like a theme park with all 7 wonders of the world? Education is cool even without cheesy gimmicks. And you say we have to wait a whole millennium till we build anything in the Middle East. There's another time when your argument makes no sense. A millennium is one thousand years. By then, we'll be dead, and future civilizations will have a goofy theme park with the Statue of Liberty in it. Think about that. Overall, it's a very dumb idea.