... Or have we found ourselves part of the battle of priorities of the world. We have become so busy injecting hot air into circles of concern, that we overlook the importance of the words meant for this occasion - Holocaust Remembrance Day. We have juggled emotions, historical trends and movements, paths of history so clearly distinguishable from surrounding contextual areas.
So we watch and recall. Remember. Revisit. Re- interpret. Repatch. Refuse to see the differences between this atrocity and similar ones, try to re-equate the impossible to equate events, reposted variables. What's more, this is all done with a tear on the face and a song of anguish and terror. This approach is downward moving, and its path harmful, massively so. We must ask, rethink anew, our set of scales, and finetune the balances of and nearby humanity. Sorry, folks. We all try to repaint and repurpose the colors chosen in order to emphasize contact, paint our priorities with a larger, more powerful brush. We try to increase its impact on the community. And we all find that comparing our dinner plates to those of Chinese children is not a very productive action. In fact, trying to make one's own tragedy larger is so definitely NOT the way to move forward. Not at all.
Voltaire said that man must spend his life regretting all the good he has not done. Think about that. We must remember a closed fan has no purpose, no positive movement. Let us emphasize that which must be done, the truth, and forget the nonverbal imports of entries never done.
Good or bad.
We must own up.
We must move forward.
Always and forever.
We must.
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