Motovation through Ancient Britain

Yesterday was the Ancient Britain tour which was good without actually being overly interesting. I was very disappointed in Stonehenge because they took one of the greatest structures of the ancient world and made it a stupid tourist trap, it was £6 (which I didn't pay) to go in and you couldn't even get nearly the sarsen stones. To me having to pay for a structure that is 5,000 years old seems a bit dumb, there isn't really any upkeep on the place other then the cutting the grass and manning the tourist trap places, if you just got rid of that it would be free and more spectacular.

The thing that gets me about Stonehenge though is how good of a motivator were the high priest of the ancient world to get about 600 of their closest friends together to drag these huge stones across the rolling hills. I mean you couldn't pay me enough to go out using deer antlers to shape the rocks then hook large ropes to them and start pulling. How or why a civilization 5,000 years ago did that is beyond me. I mean I know it has to do with the seasons and everything but still I can't get over the amount of effort these people put in, you have to be one heck of a motivator to encourage people to do this...or I guess they could have just put the fear of the gods into them.

Salisbury Cathedral was the same way, you paid to go in and look at something largely built in 1981 trying to pass off as something from 700 years ago. See the cathedral, according to the tour guide, was bombed during WWII and for some reason it took them 40 years after the war to fix it. Guess they didn't have the correct motivation.

I didn't like Salisbury, it was to money hungry, there were collection boxes everywhere and I don't think that is right, if you want to give to the church you should do so out of your love for the religion and the building itself, not be guilted into it (note: I didn't give any money). I hate ancient Britain now because of this, you should not have to pay money for something that is really old and is a "world heritage site".

Oh well, maybe I could jazz up the places we went by preaching about aliens or something, at least then when people run off the bus they have something to do once the 5 minutes of excitement wears off and they have to wait another hour for the coach to show back up.