Thursday, May 2, 2024

From the Holocaust to the Holocaust

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Well certainly the course of human relations

takes twists and turns so arrestingly bizarre

in the dark recesses of the subconscious that

fiction emanating from the feverish minds of

psychopaths repel and disgust those who

familiarize themselves with the plot, taking

refuge in the belief that such scenarios occur

in print to titillate and frighten, but never could

they darken the world in real time and place. Who

could or would or might imagine that in this

civilized world a tiny proportion of humanity

would be viewed as dispensable to the degree that

a state enterprise would arise to methodically

and with industrial efficiency destroy the lives of

millions because they are Jews? Once done and

the world looked on with incredulity at their own

deliberate unwillingness to halt the frenzy of mass

slaughter declaring never again could or would or

should it re-occur that a people whose contribution

to the world they inhabited was immeasurable in

its value face annihilation in thought or deed, who

might have imagined in a fervid imagination gone

rancid that it was time to prepare the groundwork

to denigrate, slander, accuse and threaten another

dedicated, well-practised protocol of genocide?


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