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In reply to the discussion: Is it just me? [View all]Jakes Progress
(11,122 posts)Then you move down the floors, each one chronologically advancing.
I was worried about my reaction to what would be on the lower floors - the horror and shame. So I spent a lot of time on the top floor. It covers Germany at the beginning of the third reich. I looked at everything, then descended the floors fairly quickly, unable to force myself to study the horror as much as I did the history.
The result has been that the top floors haunt me still. Those photographs of crowds, those newpapers propagating hatred, the hardening of a people to the pain of others. The haunting part is that people are so easily guided to their worst selves.
I see the parallels in talk radio, fox, the tea-party, and the capitulation of good people trying to make nice with things that are not nice at all. Evil is evil.
There are a lot of song references upthread. Let's see if anyone knows where "Can't shake the devil's hand and say you're only joking" comes from. See if anyone knows without google.
(Here's another line from the same song: "My head can't tolerate this bobbing and pretending
Listen to some bullet-head and the madness that he's saying"