Within the first month of the "two weeks to slow the spread" I had made several yellow stars out of cardboard, and carried them around with me. I used them to talk to folks about this. I re-read Herman Wouk's "Winds of War" series until it was shredded, read Wiesel's "Night", also "Man's Search for Meaning", all to try to understand th…
Within the first month of the "two weeks to slow the spread" I had made several yellow stars out of cardboard, and carried them around with me. I used them to talk to folks about this. I re-read Herman Wouk's "Winds of War" series until it was shredded, read Wiesel's "Night", also "Man's Search for Meaning", all to try to understand the madness all around me. ALL of my friends complied to some extent. Some excoriated me and unfriended me.
YES, these past two years DEFINITELY have exact parallels to Nazi Germany. We can never forget.
🗨 It’s been more than seventy-five years since the Nazis were defeated and Auschwitz was liberated.[...] How were millions of people systematically exterminated in an advanced Western nation—a constitutional republic? How did such respectable and intelligent citizens become complicit in the murder of their countrymen? These are the questions Milton Mayer sought to answer in his book They Thought They Were Free.
Within the first month of the "two weeks to slow the spread" I had made several yellow stars out of cardboard, and carried them around with me. I used them to talk to folks about this. I re-read Herman Wouk's "Winds of War" series until it was shredded, read Wiesel's "Night", also "Man's Search for Meaning", all to try to understand the madness all around me. ALL of my friends complied to some extent. Some excoriated me and unfriended me.
YES, these past two years DEFINITELY have exact parallels to Nazi Germany. We can never forget.
😳 Indeed, we can all be evil, and the Germans were nothing special → https://brownstone.org/articles/they-thought-they-were-free/ ← a revelatory engaging read albeit longish 👌
🗨 It’s been more than seventy-five years since the Nazis were defeated and Auschwitz was liberated.[...] How were millions of people systematically exterminated in an advanced Western nation—a constitutional republic? How did such respectable and intelligent citizens become complicit in the murder of their countrymen? These are the questions Milton Mayer sought to answer in his book They Thought They Were Free.