A lot of people think that world war 2 was some big event (randomly choosing
world war 2 here, take any destructive event in history), but that they can
just ignore it. They'll say "oh that was terrible" but they'll
immediately forget about it later. I felt very affected by it.
Going to the crux of the matter, today we watched a video about various Japanese civilians, some of whom vaporized during the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Then when we made a deeper study of the holocaust: that further diminishes your faith in humanity. Historians will forever take opposing sides on this matter, speaking of it as either "there was an ABSOLUTE necessity to use the a-bombs because otherwise american lives would have been lost" or etc. But we won't speak from a historian's standpoint. From their perspective, we will only consider the various goods done to one country rather than a cohesive whole. In that sense, history makes you lose sight of the shore. So instead, consider eternity itself, and question the motives, which throughout history, appear again and again in the actions of tyrants, common people, kings, and democracies. And the whole crux of the matter is not whether it will benefit a particular group of people or etc. It is why such an action, be it the holocaust or the a-bombs, is even necessary.
You can keep debating how necessary some of these actions in history were. We take a step out of these very narrow-minded concepts of "you", "i", "this country", or "that country". Whether or not the USA wins or Japan does hardly matters from this broad perspective, as whichever nation suffers, and whichever nation cries out in victory in seeing its hated enemy fall at last only hurts you profoundly, as it means the loss of humanity as a whole. Think of the human body, an analogy for the universe. If various antibodies/cells in the human body began killing each other, what would it mean?
The destruction of the human body. Because the anti-bodies have lost a sense of the whole. And humans so often do that that it feels, at times, quite, quite sick that we can reduce the collapse of this universal, whole purpose to a few marginal and short-sighted thoughts of whether it strategically affects this country, or that country.
I've been thinking about this the whole day, because to me it's incredibly depressing. When you find that humanity is so shortsighted and people are so unmindful of others (which they so often are, even here, away from the countless horrific events that happened in the past) you begin losing faith in humanity. And like a desperate man who has been starved of something fulfilling in life, you find that ideals beyond humanity hold the greater attraction than the world of normal people, who it seems can hardly look past this idea of "you" and "i".
Going to the crux of the matter, today we watched a video about various Japanese civilians, some of whom vaporized during the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Then when we made a deeper study of the holocaust: that further diminishes your faith in humanity. Historians will forever take opposing sides on this matter, speaking of it as either "there was an ABSOLUTE necessity to use the a-bombs because otherwise american lives would have been lost" or etc. But we won't speak from a historian's standpoint. From their perspective, we will only consider the various goods done to one country rather than a cohesive whole. In that sense, history makes you lose sight of the shore. So instead, consider eternity itself, and question the motives, which throughout history, appear again and again in the actions of tyrants, common people, kings, and democracies. And the whole crux of the matter is not whether it will benefit a particular group of people or etc. It is why such an action, be it the holocaust or the a-bombs, is even necessary.
You can keep debating how necessary some of these actions in history were. We take a step out of these very narrow-minded concepts of "you", "i", "this country", or "that country". Whether or not the USA wins or Japan does hardly matters from this broad perspective, as whichever nation suffers, and whichever nation cries out in victory in seeing its hated enemy fall at last only hurts you profoundly, as it means the loss of humanity as a whole. Think of the human body, an analogy for the universe. If various antibodies/cells in the human body began killing each other, what would it mean?
The destruction of the human body. Because the anti-bodies have lost a sense of the whole. And humans so often do that that it feels, at times, quite, quite sick that we can reduce the collapse of this universal, whole purpose to a few marginal and short-sighted thoughts of whether it strategically affects this country, or that country.
I've been thinking about this the whole day, because to me it's incredibly depressing. When you find that humanity is so shortsighted and people are so unmindful of others (which they so often are, even here, away from the countless horrific events that happened in the past) you begin losing faith in humanity. And like a desperate man who has been starved of something fulfilling in life, you find that ideals beyond humanity hold the greater attraction than the world of normal people, who it seems can hardly look past this idea of "you" and "i".
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