After I posted that, I started ‘hearing voices’ that suggested that the meaning of the statue was ‘mental masturbation.’ Modern day thinkers are doing nothing but mentally masturbating? Wow, how very cynical of you. Thanks for sharing. Am I supposed to feel smug and superior for criticizing the mental masturbation of modern-day thinkers? About how they are lacking arms, and are therefore ‘out of touch’ with the real, physical world, unable to actually ‘do’ anything useful or practical?
If that were the actual meaning of the statue, couldn’t they have just written it in a sentence instead of making a whole statue to symbolize it? They could have just written the words on a piece of paper saying ‘Modern day thinkers are just mentally masturbating. They are unable to accomplish anything useful. Therefore, I feel cynical about everything. The end.’ But no, it had to be a statue.
I’m not sure that’s necessarily the official meaning behind it, but that’s what the voices were saying.
