An Interpretation of the Georgia Guidestones

I first heard of these guidestones on Brad Meltzer’s Decoded show. No-one other than the stonemasons knows who contracted to build these guidestones in June 1979. The stonemasons know but are not saying. What’s interesting is not who had them built but the inscription on them.

Here are the inscriptions:

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

Inscription #1 sounds like population control from Paul R. Ehrlich’s The Population Bomb book.

Inscription #2 sounds like eugenics.

Inscriptions #3 #5, and #6 sound like parts of the New World Order.

Inscriptions #4 and #9 aren’t too bad.  Kind of new agey. It would been nice if he used the word “God” or “Almight” or even “The Creator” instead of “the infinite.”

Not sure what inscription #7 means. The word “petty” is not well defined. And how do you define “useless”?   Is the author talking about gov’t bureaucrats when he mentions “officials”?

Inscription #8 sounds like collectivism. What “social duties” does the author mean?

Finally, inscription #10 sounds environmentalism. “Cancer” is a strong word to use.

If these stones are meant to help people after a global catastrophe to restart society again then I think the guidestones will fail. Putting the 10 Commandments or even The Bill of Rights on them would have been a better idea. Heck, even the Buddha’s Precepts would be better and I’m not even a Buddhist. I don’t think the author put much thought into the advice.

We may not know who the author is but I can tell you what his ideology is: He’s a far-Leftist.