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The last time I visited Washington, D.C. the various Smithsonian institutions had set up exhibits on the National Mall. Which was really delightful, but also got me thinking: what happens after a century of the United States of America as the world's only superpower? Will the Mall be so chock full of artifacts and statues and gewgaws from around the world, that it will resemble a grand, marble yard sale? I imagine the riches of the whole world heaped up in dusty piles...

Well, Richard Thompson imagined it, too, and better. I especially love the statue of Victimhood in Search of Closure.