End of the Line? Saudi Arabia to scale back plans for desert megacity

Re:End of the Line? Saudi Arabia to scale back plans for des... by RcouF1uZ4gsC on Thursday April 11, 2024 @04:41AM (#39999844)

> Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Riyadh, Bahrain, Qatar, they all remind me of that quote from King of the Hill—they are monuments to man's arrogance.

Do you also call Amsterdam with its dikes and below sea level, “a monument to man’s arrogance?

Wasn’t the moon landing a monument to man’s arrogance?

I think calling something “a monument to man’s arrogance” reveals more about the biases of the person saying it than about the actual thing.

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Re:End of the Line? Saudi Arabia to scale back plans for des... by avar on Thursday April 11, 2024 @06:21AM (#40000552)

    > Do you also call Amsterdam
    > with its dikes and below sea
    > level, “a monument to man’s
    > arrogance?

Amsterdam mostly isn't below sea level[1], nor is most of the Netherlands's area that people inhabit.

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Re:End of the Line? Saudi Arabia to scale back plans for des... by lupusreal on Thursday April 11, 2024 @05:12AM (#40000074)

Why do you think either of those aren't?

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Re:End of the Line? Saudi Arabia to scale back plans for des... by RcouF1uZ4gsC on Thursday April 11, 2024 @06:09AM (#40000463)

Of course they are. Every human achievement is in a sense a monument to the arrogance of man.

My issue is that when the term is used as a pejorative, it more often used with regards to projects in developing countries.

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