The New 7 wonders
I am not going to post about how happy I am about Taj Mahal getting into the new 7 wonders of the world. I am happy but my post is not about it. What I actually want to say here is how every once in a while someone comes up with the idea of making a new list for the seven wonders of the world and people go totally mad over it. I mean voting for a wonder of the world is the most ridiculous thing. These things should be judged by the most experienced and the best architects and archaeologists of the world. But what happens is lots of silly votes are taken in and used to see who wins.
I agree to what UNESCO had said about this that the method is not scientific and that its purely money making campaign. The method is definitely not scientific but the worst part is asking the people to vote and select it. I mean is this some kind of freaking reality show like American Idol or something. I did not understand how they could do such a thing. I mean architectural marvels like Eiffel Tower and Statue of Liberty were left out.
It was certainly amidst a lot of controversy with the whole Pyramid of Giza fiasco then later on UNESCO claiming it to be just a money making campaign. Well, I personally believe that it should not be accepted as something of a great importance. The only reason for me saying this thing is that I don’t general public can actually make out what is a wonder in terms of archaeological and architectural ways. It just reduces the seven wonders of the world to some cheap reality show on a world wide scale.
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July 10th, 2007 at 10:02 am
Man , Taj was at the last spot. I was so relieved when I checked the results…
btw , how are u doing ? Long time no see eh ?
July 24th, 2007 at 3:20 am
Ahh….finally , your blog does open up on my comp now !!
Yes exactly , and the basis of voting was mobiles and internet of which 90% of the world population is deprived off. So only a handful of people decided them. What a shame !!
July 26th, 2007 at 5:00 pm
Even if all 100% of the world had voted I would still consider it spam since it was not selected by some intelligent architect or anything but by just people.