I was reading Primo Levi (The Black Hole of Auschwitz) yesterday and felt I was reading the latest political commentary on the US. It is horrifying to watch what is happening in your country. Standing against the authoritarian tide will not be easy but you have done it before and will do it again. Western democracies across the globe sta…
I was reading Primo Levi (The Black Hole of Auschwitz) yesterday and felt I was reading the latest political commentary on the US. It is horrifying to watch what is happening in your country. Standing against the authoritarian tide will not be easy but you have done it before and will do it again. Western democracies across the globe stand with you. You are not alone.
“Auschwitz is outside of us, but it is all around us, in the air. The plague has died away, but the infection still lingers and it would be foolish to deny it. Rejection of human solidarity, obtuse and cynical indifference to the suffering of others, abdication of the intellect and of moral sense to the principle of authority, and above all, at the root of everything, a sweeping tide of cowardice, a colossal cowardice which masks itself as warring virtue, love of country and faith in an idea.”
I was reading Primo Levi (The Black Hole of Auschwitz) yesterday and felt I was reading the latest political commentary on the US. It is horrifying to watch what is happening in your country. Standing against the authoritarian tide will not be easy but you have done it before and will do it again. Western democracies across the globe stand with you. You are not alone.
“Auschwitz is outside of us, but it is all around us, in the air. The plague has died away, but the infection still lingers and it would be foolish to deny it. Rejection of human solidarity, obtuse and cynical indifference to the suffering of others, abdication of the intellect and of moral sense to the principle of authority, and above all, at the root of everything, a sweeping tide of cowardice, a colossal cowardice which masks itself as warring virtue, love of country and faith in an idea.”
Primo Levi