Last friday my housemates and I went to the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. The experience is intense, touching, and deeply relevant for today as we live in a world that continues to dehumanize one another, resort to violence, and turn to genocide. It's more than worth your time whenever you are in the District.
In the midst of so much to remember and mourn, I was particularly moved by these words from Bertolt Brecht, the dramatist/poet who was allowed to escape the Holocaust by emigrating to the US because of his artistic skills. What does it mean to be a survivor? Or that we as humanity have "survived" the Holocaust, but seem content to let other genocides happen?
I, the Survivor
I know of course: it’s simply luck
That I’ve survived so many friends. But last night in a dream
I heard those friends say of me: ‘Survival of the fittest’
2 comments:
that's really powerful; thanks for sharing.
hope you all have a wonderful vacation.
my favorite Brecht quote:
"Let nothing be called natural
in an age of bloody confusion,
ordered disorder, planned caprice,
and dehumanized humanity, lest all things
be held unalterable!"
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