They didn’t stop it because of the danger; that was just an excuse.
They stopped it, because, as demonstrated by many comments here, it became ideologically profitable to claim “sacred” status and use that to control the behavior of others…
You see this everywhere where sites like this exist, now, and there are groups with vested interests in controlling who gets to access a site/climb a structure. Everywhere from Mexico to Egypt to China to Australia. All since roughly 2005-2010, never mind the fact that these are all monuments to dead cultures, and all have been climbed just fine, by a wide variety of outsiders, for hundreds of years up to that point…
It’s all part of our general trend towards control and slavish conformity, where, instead of being largely “free”, we are all largely “unfree”, and expected to be “extra thankful” to be allowed any freedoms at all…
Really sad to see people here cheering that on. Thought we were better than Reddit. Obviously not, when it comes to stupid, authoritarian groupthink.
They didn’t stop it because of the danger; that was just an excuse.
They stopped it, because, as demonstrated by many comments here, it became ideologically profitable to claim “sacred” status and use that to control the behavior of others…
You see this everywhere where sites like this exist, now, and there are groups with vested interests in controlling who gets to access a site/climb a structure. Everywhere from Mexico to Egypt to China to Australia. All since roughly 2005-2010, never mind the fact that these are all monuments to dead cultures, and all have been climbed just fine, by a wide variety of outsiders, for hundreds of years up to that point…
It’s all part of our general trend towards control and slavish conformity, where, instead of being largely “free”, we are all largely “unfree”, and expected to be “extra thankful” to be allowed any freedoms at all…
Really sad to see people here cheering that on. Thought we were better than Reddit. Obviously not, when it comes to stupid, authoritarian groupthink.