Rhialto <[email protected]> wrote: ... |I agree that bad history should be remembered in context and not |forgotten. However, that is not what these quotes do. They give no |context, and they make A.H. seem like a relatively normal person. Now if |he was quoted at his worst, it might be obvious what sort of monster he |was, but that is not the effect of these quotes. His crimes against |humanity are trivialised by putting things he said next to people like |Mahatma Gandhi.
Difficult given that in the FreeBSD core team there is someone who thinks clean rooms are something desirable. I do not know what such people think. In my context. If you look in the eyes of a young girl who has to face the "contempt for mankind", and i quote that, expressed by said subjects, and if all you do is to spend ten minutes of your life with the photos on the single page[1], which took me two minutes to find and i know many many many many more of such photos and many of them more painful than those, then the non-understanding you will see in these eyes is so beautifully expressed by the wonderful Hannah Ahrendt and her "Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil". And also, in Buddhism it is clear that the monkey is the start of it all and it is your personal responsibility to walk the spiral staircase to a "higher ground" and "increase your karma". It is in us and not talking about it or purport it does not exist does not help at all. It requires active working, it requires reflection, concentration, and transformation. Chimpanzees are one of the cruelest kind. A buddhistic teacher of former times said "be kind with them and silent when they cut you in pieces" (if i recall correctly, this is not truly exact). For those who stick to the committer: that are not only words, you may try that if you can, search "Lingchi" on the web -- but be aware! You will never be able to reflect something that you do not even know about. You will never be able to look back over twenty years of time and get ashamed of having gotten something so wrong if you never got even in contact with it at first. Hitler got his Villa and the entire mountain it stands on as well, a private doctor, a Mercedes-Benz. Making such deals seems to attract not few people. You could go on a cheap dreamboat holiday. The regime was bankrupt very soon, but others had to pay for it already by then, with their resources, money first, humans and other natural ones later. Somehow that reminds me of something. --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt)
