Yeah that image is a bit of magic. I figured an illusion would go well with a confused and seemingly contagious society.
Remember when those statues were going down, a few months back? There's a reason why many artifacts from ancient Rome are often unearthed in pieces. Pissed off people did that, and look how they turned out. What good is history though when you got a future to destroy.
We, for what ever reason even though we are told over and over again to learn from the past or you are doomed to repeat it, still have not learned from the past.