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Friday, January 30, 2009

This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.

Daneil Schwammenthal: End the Holocaust Memorials, The ceremonies have become a substitute for acting against modern fascists - '...Holocaust Memorial Day has become an annual ritual in which Europeans promise moral clarity and courage the next time it's needed. Yet the list of post-Holocaust genocides is long: the killing fields of Cambodia, the slaughter of Tutsis in Rwanda, the murder of Christians and animists in southern Sudan and the continuing destruction of Muslims in Darfur. While the world yawns, the Islamists in Khartoum are busy with their second genocide...'

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This strikes me as entirely apropos, as something which should be taken at face value and not just figuratively. Too though, it is representative of a far wider set of problems that have profoundly infected virtually all stratas and all depths and dimensions in the west.

And while "secularists" will only be able to understand this metaphorically, I would be bold enough to "play the fool" further still and suggest all parties might consider a period of fasting and prayer since there are increasing signs on the horizon - in addition to indicators right in front of our collective nose - that warrant such a thoroughgoing and absolute soberminded quality, if it might be put in those terms.

The point being that certain realities need to be read and fully grasped on their own terms - not reacted to in some exciteable sense, but not naively accepted or otherwise misinterpreted either. Rather, taken in and understood in a measured sense and on their own terms. Each time, and each generation, has its own, sui generis measure and standard. All things are, ever and always, new. Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind. Sow the whirlwind, reap the abyss. The wind has been sown and further choices, conscious and less so, remain.

(I commented in a Volokh thread on one particularly noteworthy aspect of this, here.)

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