So I chose the photo from "Smash The Old World." It's a photo of a man on a ladder trying to smash a sign from the "Old World." The people around him look like they are yelling and chanting. Watching and waiting for the sign to be thrown down in the respect of the new world. The four olds were Old Customs, Old Culture, Old Habits, and Old Ideas. Mao to make a new society but to make a new one you would have to destroy the old one. He made his men destroy anything that represented the four olds.
I will connect this to the reading we had, where there was a store and the red guards did not like the name of it. So they took it down and started trying to break it. Everyone was stomping on it and jumping up and down. Then a one man said "this won't work." Another guy came up and said "I have a axe." He put it up against a curb and started whacking at it until it snapped. Then the Red guards announced they wanted every store/sign to have something to do with the revolution or mao.
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