The Unknown Bureaucrat — Attraction in Reykjavik

It's some government dude in the middle of getting squashed flat by a rock all Wile E. Coyote style.

Sure, it may be a testament to the workaday no-names who toil day after day in some Sisyphean civil service red tape nightmare. Always working thanklessly for The Man and yet still making no progress. Or maybe it's to honor the thousands of nameless everymen worldwide who keep the system running? Who knows? It's art. You bring your own interpretation to the piece.

But in the end, it still ends up being some government dude in the middle of getting squashed flat by a rock all Wile E. Coyote style.

The view of the...

A sculpture monument next to the lake. In the lake you can see birds and swans and ducks. Sit and watch the lake. It is in the center of the city, you can make a memory with it. I found the following about it: "A large slab of Icelandic volcanic basalt sits where you would expect to see a torso and head. The unique statue was sculpted by Magnús Tómasson in 1994, and you’ll have to decide for yourself whether it was meant as a serious tribute, or a humorous, satirical piece". It is a tribute to the unknown officials who help run the...

To all fellow bureaucracats - who've ever read the memorable words of a politician quoted in a newspaper and known they were really written by you, who were ever tasked with implementing a REALLY BAD half-cooked idea from an elected official and turned it into a program that creates a sliver of public good, who've ever steered a political decision maker to the best possible option for your community or country when otherwise they'd stick with what the lobbyist wants them to do - you know this statue is for you, and basically...