The Georgia Department of Economic Development described the inscription as “a 10-part message espousing the conservation of mankind and future generations in 12 languages.” It also serves as an “astronomical calendar,” the department wrote.
Included in the inscriptions were, “maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature” and “unite humanity with a living new language.”
Some conspiracy theorists believe that the message refers to an elitist plot to decrease world population.
The famous host of InfoWars, Alex Jones, popularized the monument in a video, and claimed the it was a “calling for forced depopulation of the planet.” The video has been removed, but it’s likely a lot of people got their conspiracy theories from the video.
People may have also been influenced by Republican candidate for governor of Georgia, Kandiss Taylor, who promised to destroy the Georgia Guidestones. In a tweet, she said it is connected to satanists.
In her campaign video, Taylor said that a “new world order is here” referring to images of the slab’s inscriptions.
She also tweeted on Wednesday, “God is God all by Himself. He can do ANYTHING He wants to do. That includes striking down Satanic Guidestones.”
She’s not the only one who was threatening the monument. It has been vandalized several times.
The explosion put an end to that.