Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2011-02-24]: Detroit will finally have a Robocop statue, after a citizens’ movement which started as a joke managed to raise more than $50,000 for that cause. [Source: web news] What will the historian of the future guess about our era, when they come face to face with statues of Rocky (in Philadelphia) or of Robocop? Are we witnesses to the birth of myths or to human stupidity? We tend to believe that myths of the old days represented reality as our ancestors understood it. What kind of “reality” do the statues of Rocky and Robocop represent?
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