Auschwitz was liberated 81 years ago. We are at a point where the last survivors are still with us. I don’t know whether we have learned little or something, when you see how democracy remains stable. Despite everything, many democracies are holding their own and stumbling forward.
The Jewish author Franz Kafka once said that the decisive moment in human development is always ongoing. Perhaps this means that we can never stop defending our society anew and renewing our values. Many of us believed that the time of struggle was over, that it was the previous generations who gave their blood and tears, while we could live an uneventful life in a consumer society. This is not the case.
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This Remembrance Day carries extra weight. The logical endpoint of all today’s conspiracism is, as we all know, bog-standard antisemitism, which is quickly becoming mainstream. The hate and denial I usually only saw in at home in the Middle East is now accepted here. We can’t let it spread further, and hopefully I see little signs that society will start to reject it
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Auschwitz was liberated 81 years ago. We are at a point where the last survivors are still with us. I don’t know whether we have learned little or something, when you see how democracy remains stable. Despite everything, many democracies are holding their own and stumbling forward.
The Jewish author Franz Kafka once said that the decisive moment in human development is always ongoing. Perhaps this means that we can never stop defending our society anew and renewing our values. Many of us believed that the time of struggle was over, that it was the previous generations who gave their blood and tears, while we could live an uneventful life in a consumer society. This is not the case.
This Remembrance Day carries extra weight. The logical endpoint of all today’s conspiracism is, as we all know, bog-standard antisemitism, which is quickly becoming mainstream. The hate and denial I usually only saw in at home in the Middle East is now accepted here. We can’t let it spread further, and hopefully I see little signs that society will start to reject it