I’d never heard of the Georgia Guidestones, a monument with six 20-foot slabs of granite standing upright, 100 tons of roadside attraction. Inscribed in 8 languages are 10 edicts:

• Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature.
• Guide reproduction wisely – improving fitness and diversity.
• Unite humanity with a living new language.
• Rule passion – faith – tradition – and all things with tempered reason.
• Protect people and nations with fair laws and just courts.
• Let all nations rule internally resolving external disputes in a world court.
• Avoid petty laws and useless officials.
• Balance personal rights with social duties.
• Prize truth – beauty – love – seeking harmony with the infinite.
• Be not a cancer on the earth – Leave room for nature – Leave room for nature

The monument is out near the city of Elberton, Georgia. Time for a road trip, I think.