Creating statues and memorials to past people seems futile in the light of endless time progress.?

We finfd nameless statues on easter Island, Rome, and in other places. Why do we still pursue a pointless exercise.Creating statues and memorials to past people seems futile in the light of endless time progress.?
Everything is a pointless exercise. Everything is destroyed and forgotten in time. Even this entire planet will one day be nothing more than dust floating around in space. The only way anything can be meaningful is if it is remembered. History is only valuable in a modern context in its role in public memory and identity. Monuments help define that role.Creating statues and memorials to past people seems futile in the light of endless time progress.?
I don't know. But they make the place look nice (sometimes) :)


Also, in Rome, emperors etc had statues made because they were vain. Now we just seem to make them of dead people.


It's commemorative though - and helps us remember those we've lost - like the Queen Mother statue in London that was erected this week.